NCT03393351

Implementation of Shared Decision-Making in Cancer Care

Evaluation of a Program for Routine Implementation of Shared Decision-Making in Cancer Care: A Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 2,131 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to evaluate a theoretically and empirically grounded implementation program designed to foster shared decision-making in routine cancer care. The intervention program consists of several components (e.g. training for health care professionals, patient empowerment strategies) that will be rolled out in three clinics at a comprehensive cancer center in Germany.

Conditions

• Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Shared decision-making program	The intervention is shared decision-making. The implementation strategy to foster shared decision-making in routine cancer care is a multicomponent implementation program. The implementation program consists of the following components: 1. shared decision-making trainings for health care professionals, 2. individual coaching for physicians, 3. patient activation strategy, 4. provision of patient information material and decision aids, 5. revision of the clinics quality management documents, and 6. critical reflection of current organization of multidisciplinary team meetings. Implementation: after baseline assessment (t0) for clinic 1, after assessment at t1 for clinic 2, after assessment at t2 for clinic 3.
OTHER	Usual Care	No specific study related intervention. Treatment decisions are made according to current routine practice at the comprehensive cancer center in Germany.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-03-05
• Primary completion: 2020-09-12
• Completion: 2020-12-31
• First posted: 2018-01-08
• Last updated: 2021-06-04

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: Germany