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Emergency Department-Based Palliative Care for Advanced Cancer Patients

25. juni 2015 oppdatert av: 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.

Studieoversikt

Detaljert beskrivelse

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.

Studietype

Intervensjonell

Registrering (Faktiske)

136

Fase

  • Ikke aktuelt

Kontakter og plasseringer

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Studiesteder

    • New York
      • New York, New York, Forente stater, 10029
        • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Deltakelseskriterier

Forskere ser etter personer som passer til en bestemt beskrivelse, kalt kvalifikasjonskriterier. Noen eksempler på disse kriteriene er en persons generelle helsetilstand eller tidligere behandlinger.

Kvalifikasjonskriterier

Alder som er kvalifisert for studier

18 år og eldre (Voksen, Eldre voksen)

Tar imot friske frivillige

Nei

Kjønn som er kvalifisert for studier

Alle

Beskrivelse

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

Studieplan

Denne delen gir detaljer om studieplanen, inkludert hvordan studien er utformet og hva studien måler.

Hvordan er studiet utformet?

Designdetaljer

  • Primært formål: Helsetjenesteforskning
  • Tildeling: Randomisert
  • Intervensjonsmodell: Parallell tildeling
  • Masking: Enkelt

Våpen og intervensjoner

Deltakergruppe / Arm
Intervensjon / Behandling
Eksperimentell: 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.
Annen: 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

Hva måler studien?

Primære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Tiltaksbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
Quality of life and quality of mental health at 6 weeks and 12 weeks as compared from baseline
Tidsramme: 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

Sekundære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Tiltaksbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
Inpatient costs per day/cost of stay during hospitalization
Tidsramme: 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
Tidsramme: 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
Tidsramme: 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
Tidsramme: 6 months from hospital discharge
6 months from hospital discharge
Repeat visits to the ED in 6 months
Tidsramme: 6 months from hospital discharge
6 months from hospital discharge

Samarbeidspartnere og etterforskere

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Samarbeidspartnere

Etterforskere

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

Publikasjoner og nyttige lenker

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Generelle publikasjoner

Studierekorddatoer

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Studer hoveddatoer

Studiestart

1. mai 2011

Primær fullføring (Faktiske)

1. januar 2015

Studiet fullført (Faktiske)

1. januar 2015

Datoer for studieregistrering

Først innsendt

19. mai 2011

Først innsendt som oppfylte QC-kriteriene

20. mai 2011

Først lagt ut (Anslag)

23. mai 2011

Oppdateringer av studieposter

Sist oppdatering lagt ut (Anslag)

26. juni 2015

Siste oppdatering sendt inn som oppfylte QC-kriteriene

25. juni 2015

Sist bekreftet

1. juni 2015

Mer informasjon

Begreper knyttet til denne studien

Andre studie-ID-numre

  • GCO 08-1234

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