Improving Palliative Care for Patients With Cancer
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 329
- 试验地点
- 4
- 主要终点
- Quality of life as measured by Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Palliative care version (FACT-Pal) at baseline, one month, and every three months thereafter
研究概览
简要总结
RATIONALE: Palliative care may help patients with advanced cancer live more comfortably.
PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying an early intervention palliative care program to see how well it works compared to a standard care program in improving end-of-life care in patients with advanced lung , gastrointestinal, genitourinary, or breast cancer.
详细描述
OBJECTIVES:
- Determine the efficacy of an early intervention palliative care program comprising a phone-based nurse educator and shared medical appointments in improving end-of-life care of patients with advanced lung, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, or breast cancer.
- Compare symptom management, quality of life, and the match between preference of care and the care received in patients treated with an early intervention palliative care program vs a standard care program.
- Compare health care utilization by patients treated with these interventions.
OUTLINE: This is a randomized, multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to cancer diagnosis (lung vs breast vs gastrointestinal vs genitourinary) and participating center. Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 intervention arms.
- Arm I (early-intervention palliative care program): Patients complete the Medical Care Questionnaire and receive a computer-generated prescription letter that outlines the problems they have identified; the patient's physician also receives a copy of the letter. Patients receive a series of phone calls weekly for 4 weeks and then at least monthly from a nurse educator. The phone calls address 3 major areas: coordination of palliative care options in the cancer center and the patient's community, including referrals for psychological or spiritual counseling, social work consultation, financial guidance, home health, palliative care or hospice services, and bereavement counseling for the family; problem-solving therapy, focusing on the identification of problems, definition of achievable goals, a plan for reaching those goals, and evaluation of success; and tailored psycho-educational modules from "Charting Your Course", covering end-of-life topics such as symptom management, advanced care planning, communication with the health care team and family members, spirituality, and nutrition. Patients also receive information regarding the purpose and time/location of symptom management, shared medical appointments (SMAs), which they can attend in person or call in to participate via speaker phone. SMAs are 1.5-hour monthly sessions conducted by a physician and a nurse practitioner that can accommodate 10-12 patients and their caregivers. The sessions include a welcome/social period, a question and answer/peer discussion, an interactive educational session, and an opportunity for one-on-one nurse practitioner appointments with a focus on a brief review of the patients' medical treatment plans.
- Arm II (standard palliative care program): Patients receive standard palliative care from their physician/nurse practitioner team and have access to the palliative care nurse at the discretion of the treating physician.
Patients complete Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Palliative Care at baseline and every 3 months thereafter. Patients and caregivers complete surveys measuring their perception of the quality of the patient's cancer care at baseline and at 1 month.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- 未提供
排除标准
- 未提供
结局指标
主要结局
Quality of life as measured by Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Palliative care version (FACT-Pal) at baseline, one month, and every three months thereafter
时间窗: Baseline, one month, every three months
Correlate preferences for care and care received as measured by After Death Bereaved Family Member Interview with a family member of the deceased
时间窗: Baseline, one month, every three months
Symptom management as measured by Edmunton Symptom Assessment Scale at baseline, one month, and every three months thereafter
时间窗: Baseline, one month, every three months
Health care utilization by a chart review of days in hospital, ICU, ER visits at baseline, one month, and every three months thereafter
时间窗: Baseline, one month, every three months
次要结局
- Depression as measured by Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression (CES-D) at baseline, one month, and every three months thereafter(Baseline, one month, every three months)
- Problem solving skills as measured by Social Problem-Solving Skills Inventory-revised at baseline and one month(Baseline, one month, every three months)
- Caregiver burden as measured by Montgomery-Borgatta Caregiver Burden Scale at baseline, one month, and every three months thereafter (given to caregivers of patients)(Baseline, one month, every three months)