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
Active Locations (1)
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Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States, 03766