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Improving Supportive Care For Patients With Thoracic Malignancies

NCT03216109 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2024-03-21

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to use a proactive approach to improve symptom management of patients with thoracic malignancies and ensure receipt of evidence-based cancer care delivery. In this pilot study, the investigators propose to evaluate the feasibility of using outbound, proactive telephone symptom assessment strategies and ensuring evidence-based care receipt and measure the efficacy of this approach on patient satisfaction with their care, patient activation, quality of life and use of healthcare resources.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Weekly telephone symptom assessment

Each patient who is enrolled in the intervention will receive a weekly phone call from the Research Assistant for a total of 9 months to assess symptoms using the Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale. Results of the symptom assessments will be provided to the clinic staff (RN and MD) for review each week. Care plans will be generated using an electronic management platform

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Carevive Systems, Inc.

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Manali I Patel, MD · Faculty

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-08-20
Primary Completion
2023-06-28
Completion
2023-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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