NCT00300001

Home-Based Symptom Monitoring: Its Impact on Cancer Care Team Behaviors and Patient Outcomes

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 300 (planned)
• Sponsor: Community Cancer Care · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The primary research objective of this protocol is to evaluate the impact of integrating a home-based symptom monitoring system in the day-to-day care of cancer patients in community settings on the frequency of supportive symptom interventions, symptom severity, and quality of life.

Detailed description

Patients will be randomly assigned to one of two groups. One group will be offered an Internet assisted home-based symptom reporting system Cancer Symptom Monitor (CSM) for a twelve-month study period. Patient and care team evaluations will be measured using quantitative and qualitative methods (via focus groups). The second group will receive "standard care" without home-based symptom monitoring. Both groups will be evaluated at baseline, 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, \& 12 months, for symptom levels and overall quality of life during the twelve-month study period.

Conditions

• Cancer
• Solid Tumor
• Hematologic Malignancy

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-03-01
• First posted: 2006-03-07
• Last updated: 2006-08-25

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: United States