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Improving Communication Between Cancer Patients & Oncologists

NCT02969031 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 148

Last updated 2020-01-03

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Summary

The overarching goal of this project is to improve communication between oncologists and their patients by ensuring that the patient's voice is heard in the medical encounter. Thus, the hope is to improve the experience for patients living with cancer. The investigators seek to accomplish this goal by providing oncologists communication skills training that includes feedback on their own audio-recorded conversations. The feedback will come from two sources: 1) Professional research assistant coders who will identify objective learning opportunities based on specific coding criteria and 2) Trained patient reviewers who will listen to the recordings and offer their own, subjective feedback at key moments in the encounters.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Enhanced SCOPE training

Intervention is integrated into the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Maintenance Of Certification (MOC) process.

BEHAVIORAL

Standard Communication training

Standard Communication training

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • James A. Tulsky, MD · Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-02-14
Primary Completion
2018-08-31
Completion
2018-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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