Effectiveness of Nursing Case Management for Lung Cancer Patients

Phase 2

Completed

• Conditions: Lung Cancer
• Interventions: Other: case management

• Registration Number: NCT02070497
• Lead Sponsor: National Taiwan University Hospital

Brief Summary

The study is to investigate the effectiveness of nursing case management for lung cancer patients in a Taiwan medical center.

Detailed Description

Purpose: The study is to investigate the effectiveness of nursing case management for lung cancer patients in a Taiwan medical center. The outcome variables include of percentages of patients accepted treatment in our medical center, average lengths of stay, unplanned re-admission rate, average admission times of emergency department per year, percentages of patients rejecting treatment, completing rate of treatment, withdrawing rate of treatment, improving rate of patients' treatment compliance, patients' satisfaction with healthcare, and staffs' satisfaction with case management.

Methods: The study will employ a quasi-experimental research design. The patients with new-diagnosed lung cancer and accepting case management will be assigned to the experimental group； The patients with new-diagnosed lung cancer in the period of one year ago and without accepting case management will be assigned to the control group；The third group is the patients with non-new-diagnosed lung cancer and with accepting case management. The staffs are the doctors within the lung cancer medical team.

The lung cancer case management database, patients' satisfaction questionnaire, and staffs' satisfaction questionnaire will be used to measure the effectiveness. Statistical software SPSS for Windows version 17.0 will be used to analyze the data.

Expected results: The research outcome will to confirm the impact of case management on the lung cancer patients and could be the reference data for future cancer case management model.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-07
• Primary Completion: 2011-08
• Study Completion: 2011-12
• Study First Submitted: 2012-11-19
• Status Verified: 2014-02
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-02-24
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-02-24
• Study First Posted: 2014-02-25
• Last Update Posted: 2014-02-25

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 415

Inclusion Criteria

• patients with lung cancer

Exclusion Criteria

• younger than 20 years old

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
case management_new	case management	The patients with new-diagnosed lung cancer and accepting case management
case management_old	case management	the patients with non-new-diagnosed lung cancer and with accepting case management

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
chart review	One year	We reviewed the chart and lung cancer case management database to collect the patients' healthy outcome. The outcome variables include of percentages of patients accepted treatment in our medical center, average lengths of stay, unplanned re-admission rate, average admission times of emergency department per year, percentages of patients rejecting treatment, completing rate of treatment, withdrawing rate of treatment, improving rate of patients' treatment compliance.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
patients' satisfaction questionnaire	1 day
staffs' satisfaction questionnaire	1 day

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

National Taiwan University Hospital Research Ethics Committee; 🇨🇳 Taipei, Taiwan