Status:

COMPLETED

Variation in Cancer Centers' End-of-Life Quality

Lead Sponsor:

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Collaborating Sponsors:

American Cancer Society, Inc.

Conditions:

Advanced Cancer

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Brief 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 pati...

Detailed Description

The purpose of this study is to identify organizational and provider practice norms at major US cancer centers, and how these norms influence patient and family expectations and provider decision-maki...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Provider
  • Hospital-based providers (e.g., hospitalists, intensivists, emergency medicine, advanced practice providers) or oncology providers (e.g. medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, surgical oncologists, advanced practice providers)
  • Care for patients with advanced cancer
  • High clinical load
  • Have high peer influence
  • Patient
  • Advanced cancer
  • Provider "would not be surprised" if patient died in the next 12 months
  • Caregiver
  • Self-reported caregiver of a patient meeting inclusion criteria
  • Other Informant
  • \- Member of the cancer center, hospital, unit, or service line leadership
  • Patient

Exclusion

  • \- Potential medical malpractice cases

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

July 5 2019

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

July 15 2021

Estimated Enrollment :

473 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT03780816

Start Date

July 5 2019

End Date

July 15 2021

Last Update

February 16 2023

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Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States, 03766