Health Care Coach Support in Reducing Acute Care Use and Cost in Patients With Cancer

Summary

This randomized pilot clinical trial studies health care coach support in reducing acute care use and cost in patients with cancer. Health care coach support may help cancer patients to make decisions about their care that matches what is important to them with symptom management.

Conditions

• Acute Myeloid Leukemia
• Brain Glioblastoma
• Estrogen Receptor Negative
• Extensive Stage Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
• Head and Neck Carcinoma
• HER2/Neu Negative
• Hormone-Resistant Prostate Cancer
• Limited Stage Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
• Myelodysplastic Syndrome
• Progesterone Receptor Negative
• Progressive Disease
• Recurrent Carcinoma
• Stage II Pancreatic Cancer
• Stage II Rectal Cancer
• Stage IIA Pancreatic Cancer
• Stage IIA Rectal Cancer
• Stage IIB Pancreatic Cancer
• Stage IIB Rectal Cancer
• Stage IIC Rectal Cancer
• Stage III Colon Cancer
• Stage III Esophageal Cancer
• Stage III Gastric Cancer
• Stage III Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
• Stage III Ovarian Cancer
• Stage III Pancreatic Cancer
• Stage III Rectal Cancer
• Stage III Skin Melanoma
• Stage IIIA Colon Cancer
• Stage IIIA Esophageal Cancer
• Stage IIIA Gastric Cancer
• Stage IIIA Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
• Stage IIIA Ovarian Cancer
• Stage IIIA Rectal Cancer
• Stage IIIA Skin Melanoma
• Stage IIIB Colon Cancer
• Stage IIIB Esophageal Cancer
• Stage IIIB Gastric Cancer
• Stage IIIB Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
• Stage IIIB Ovarian Cancer
• Stage IIIB Rectal Cancer
• Stage IIIB Skin Melanoma
• Stage IIIC Colon Cancer
• Stage IIIC Esophageal Cancer
• Stage IIIC Gastric Cancer
• Stage IIIC Ovarian Cancer
• Stage IIIC Rectal Cancer
• Stage IIIC Skin Melanoma
• Stage IV Bladder Cancer
• Stage IV Bone Sarcoma
• Stage IV Breast Cancer
• Stage IV Colon Cancer
• Stage IV Esophageal Cancer
• Stage IV Gastric Cancer
• Stage IV Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
• Stage IV Ovarian Cancer
• Stage IV Pancreatic Cancer
• Stage IV Rectal Cancer
• Stage IV Renal Cell Cancer
• Stage IV Skin Melanoma
• Stage IV Soft Tissue Sarcoma
• Stage IVA Bone Sarcoma
• Stage IVA Colon Cancer
• Stage IVA Rectal Cancer
• Stage IVB Bone Sarcoma
• Stage IVB Colon Cancer
• Stage IVB Rectal Cancer
• Triple-Negative Breast Carcinoma

Interventions

OTHER

Best Practice

Receive usual care

OTHER

Laboratory Biomarker Analysis

Correlative studies

PROCEDURE

Supportive Care

Undergo health care coach support

OTHER

Survey Administration

Ancillary studies

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Stanford University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Manali Patel · Stanford University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2017-08-08

Primary Completion

2021-11-30

Completion

2022-08-30

Countries

• United States

Study Locations