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Patient Navigator Project

NCT00375024 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1267

Last updated 2012-11-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Patient Navigation is a Supportive Care Intervention that addresses barriers to quality standard care by providing individualized assistance to patients and families. The NCI is conducting several research programs to test the effectiveness of this approach. The expected outcomes of patient navigation through the cancer care system include:

* Timely, definitive diagnosis following an abnormal test
* Timely treatment following positive diagnosis
* Patient satisfaction with the diagnostic and care system experience

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Patient Navigation

Inclusion of Patient Navigator in treatment plan.

PROCEDURE

Clinic Staff

Specific Patient Navigator will not be included in treatment plan. Existing clinical staff will work with the patients.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

    collaborator NIH

  • H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Richard Roetzheim, MD, MSPH · University of South Florida

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-05-31
Primary Completion
2012-09-30
Completion
2012-11-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Entities

Diseases

Read the full study record

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