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Variation in Cancer Centers' End-of-Life Quality

NCT03780816 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 473

Last updated 2023-02-16

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Summary

This is a qualitative study of local organizational and provider practice norms, and how these norms influence patient and family expectations and provider decision-making heuristics for minority patients with advanced cancer at major US cancer centers. Outpatient visits with oncologists will be observed and documented via hand-written field notes. Semi-structured interviews with selected participating clinicians, patients, caregivers, and other informants will follow the initial observation.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Observation of provider-patient interactions and interviews

Clinical interactions between cancer patients and providers will be observed and hand-written field notes recorded and later transcribed. Semi-structured interviews with providers, patients, caregivers, and other informants will take place following initial observation.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • American Cancer Society, Inc.

    collaborator OTHER

  • Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Amber E Barnato, MD · Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-07-05
Primary Completion
2021-07-15
Completion
2021-07-15

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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