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Emergency Department-Based Palliative Care for Advanced Cancer Patients

25 de junio de 2015 actualizado por: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
The purpose of this study is to: 1) identify the palliative care needs of Emergency Department patients with advanced cancer, and determine if these needs can be rapidly assessed in the ED; 2) determine whether early palliative care consultation improves survival, quality of life and other burdensome symptoms and decreases utilization as compared to usual care.

Descripción general del estudio

Descripción detallada

As the population ages, the number of individual living with cancer will continue to rise, and the number of Emergency Department (ED) visits for this population will continue to increase. Cancer patients visit EDs because symptoms, such as pain or vomiting, can't be controlled at home, in an assisted living facility, or in their provider's office. The ED is often the only place that can provide the necessary treatments as well as immediate access to technologically advanced testing for those with cancer. However, palliative care (PC) services, such as relief of burdensome symptoms), attention to spiritual or social concerns, and establishing goals of care, is not standard care in the ED outside of a few medical centers. Most patients do not have well-defined goals of care, and are often subjected to painful and marginally effective tests and procedures, not because they are consistent with their goals but because it is less time-consuming than discussing other options and has less perceived legal risk. Until recently little emphasis has been placed on education, research, or guidelines for the delivery of PC services in this important setting. While emergency providers could provide some of these services themselves, knowledge and skills regarding PC as well as staffing are currently inadequate to provide comprehensive services. In addition to further decreasing days spent in the hospital and health care costs, consultation by a PC team for ED cancer patients might also reduce pain and other symptoms, aid in complex medical decision-making regarding testing and treatments, and facilitate transfer to hospice or home with visiting nurse services. To enable PC consultation for ED cancer patients, the investigators will first determine who could benefit from emergent consultation, what services they need, and what characteristics of emergency providers and hospitals are preventing them from being offered. To determine what affect PC consultation for patients with advanced cancer has on symptoms, discussions with patients and families about goals of care, and how long patients spend in the ED, the investigators will then randomly assign 200 ED cancer patients to targeted PC consultation versus usual or standard care.

Tipo de estudio

Intervencionista

Inscripción (Actual)

136

Fase

  • No aplica

Contactos y Ubicaciones

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Ubicaciones de estudio

    • New York
      • New York, New York, Estados Unidos, 10029
        • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Criterios de participación

Los investigadores buscan personas que se ajusten a una determinada descripción, denominada criterio de elegibilidad. Algunos ejemplos de estos criterios son el estado de salud general de una persona o tratamientos previos.

Criterio de elegibilidad

Edades elegibles para estudiar

18 años y mayores (Adulto, Adulto Mayor)

Acepta Voluntarios Saludables

No

Géneros elegibles para el estudio

Todos

Descripción

Inclusion Criteria:

  • ≥ 18 years age
  • Speak English or Spanish
  • ED patient with an advanced solid malignancy

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Have already been seen by palliative care team
  • Cognitive deficits
  • Children or adolescents
  • No confirmed history of active cancer
  • Do not speak English or Spanish
  • Reside outside the US

Plan de estudios

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¿Cómo está diseñado el estudio?

Detalles de diseño

  • Propósito principal: Investigación de servicios de salud
  • Asignación: Aleatorizado
  • Modelo Intervencionista: Asignación paralela
  • Enmascaramiento: Único

Armas e Intervenciones

Grupo de participantes/brazo
Intervención / Tratamiento
Experimental: Early palliative care consultation
Early palliative care consultation for ED patients with advanced cancer.
Patients will have symptoms assessed, have goals of care discussion with family and team present, and surrogate designated, as well as coordination of care and home services.
Otro: Care as usual
Care as usual, may or may not receive palliative care consultation
Standard care as usual which may or may not include palliative care consultation

¿Qué mide el estudio?

Medidas de resultado primarias

Medida de resultado
Medida Descripción
Periodo de tiempo
Quality of life and quality of mental health at 6 weeks and 12 weeks as compared from baseline
Periodo de tiempo: at baseline, 6 weeks and 12 weeks
Comparison of life and quality of mental health from baseline to 6 weeks and 12 weeks.
at baseline, 6 weeks and 12 weeks

Medidas de resultado secundarias

Medida de resultado
Medida Descripción
Periodo de tiempo
Inpatient costs per day/cost of stay during hospitalization
Periodo de tiempo: 6 months after hospital discharge
Costs per day during incident admission and total cost of entire incident hospital stay
6 months after hospital discharge
Hospital length of stay
Periodo de tiempo: 6 months after hospital discharge
Number of days hospitalized for incident admission: i.e., date of admission and date of discharge, difference between those two dates.
6 months after hospital discharge
Survival
Periodo de tiempo: at time of enrollment
Survival days from day of enrollment to day of death or study termination
at time of enrollment
Readmissions within 6 months of discharge
Periodo de tiempo: 6 months from hospital discharge
6 months from hospital discharge
Repeat visits to the ED in 6 months
Periodo de tiempo: 6 months from hospital discharge
6 months from hospital discharge

Colaboradores e Investigadores

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Investigadores

  • Investigador principal: Corita Grudzen, MD, MSHS, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Publicaciones y enlaces útiles

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Publicaciones Generales

Fechas de registro del estudio

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Fechas importantes del estudio

Inicio del estudio

1 de mayo de 2011

Finalización primaria (Actual)

1 de enero de 2015

Finalización del estudio (Actual)

1 de enero de 2015

Fechas de registro del estudio

Enviado por primera vez

19 de mayo de 2011

Primero enviado que cumplió con los criterios de control de calidad

20 de mayo de 2011

Publicado por primera vez (Estimar)

23 de mayo de 2011

Actualizaciones de registros de estudio

Última actualización publicada (Estimar)

26 de junio de 2015

Última actualización enviada que cumplió con los criterios de control de calidad

25 de junio de 2015

Última verificación

1 de junio de 2015

Más información

Términos relacionados con este estudio

Otros números de identificación del estudio

  • GCO 08-1234

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