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Engagement of Patients With Advanced Cancer

NCT02966509 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 213

Last updated 2018-10-31

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Summary

The Engagement of Patients with Advanced Cancer is an intervention that utilizes well-trained lay health coaches to engage patients and their families in goals of care and shared decision-making after a diagnosis of advanced cancer. Although lay health workers have never been tested in this role, we hypothesize that lay health workers can feasibly improve goals of care documentation and help to reduce unwanted healthcare utilization at the end of life for Veterans diagnosed with new advanced stages of cancer and those diagnosed with recurrent disease.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

EPAC

Each patient will receive a lay health worker who will engage and educate patients on goals of care documentation and will continue to address goals of care for at least 6 months with patients after enrollment in the study.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-08-31
Primary Completion
2016-12-31
Completion
2016-12-31

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