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Lay Health Worker Led Symptom Assessment Intervention

NCT03737058 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 288

Last updated 2025-02-27

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Summary

Rising costs and poor patient experiences from under-treated symptoms have led to the demand for approaches that improve patients' experiences and lower expenditures. This observational project assigned a lay health worker to conduct proactive symptom assessments intended to achieve these goals among patients with advanced cancer.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Program participants

The intervention is a 12-month telephonic program in which a lay health worker (LHW), supervised on-site by a registered nurse practitioner (RNP), assessed patient symptoms after diagnosis using the validated Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS) (cite) with the frequency of symptom assessment varying based on patient risk.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-11-01
Primary Completion
2021-12-30
Completion
2021-12-30

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This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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