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Electronic Patient Reporting of Symptoms and Unmet Needs to Connect Patients With Advanced Cancer to Palliative Care Services

NCT07195513 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 90

Last updated 2026-03-10

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study is testing whether electronic surveys can help patients with advanced cancer report their symptoms and care needs so their doctors can connect them to palliative/supportive care services sooner. The goal is to see if this approach can make it easier for patients to get support for symptoms, quality of life, and other needs during cancer treatment.

Conditions

  • Palliative Care, Health Services
  • Palliative Care Referral
  • Advanced Cancer
  • Metastatic Cancer (Different Solid Tumour Types)

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

ePRO-Directed Referral and Navigation to Palliative/Supportive Care

This intervention combines routine electronic patient-reported outcome (ePRO) symptom monitoring with additional components designed to connect patients more directly to palliative/supportive care. In addition to weekly ePRO symptom surveys, participants complete a monthly palliative care-focused ePRO survey, receive structured palliative care education from a trained study coordinator, and are offered navigation support to facilitate access to palliative/supportive care services. Severe or persistent symptoms or unmet needs reported on ePROs generate an alert to the oncology team along with a recommendation for palliative care referral. This multicomponent approach is intended to address gaps in timely referral and access to palliative/supportive care that are not addressed through symptom monitoring alone.

OTHER

ePRO Symptom Monitoring with Usual Palliative Care Referral

Participants will be offered weekly electronic patient-reported outcome (ePRO) symptom monitoring surveys and instructions on contacting the oncology team for symptom management. Referral to palliative care occurs according to usual clinical practice. Current standard of care processes for managing symptoms at DCC vary across clinics and may or may not include ePRO monitoring based on the practice of the individual clinician and disease team. Unlike the intervention arm, participants do not receive structured palliative care education, a monthly palliative care-focused ePRO survey, navigation support, or referral alerts generated from persistent or severe symptoms and unmet care needs.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • American Cancer Society (ACS)

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Tara L. Kaufmann, MD, MSCE · Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-02-25
Primary Completion
2028-04-30
Completion
2028-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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