NCT03951090

Geriatric Assessment Reporting in Real Time (GARRT) in Non-electively Hospitalized Older Cancer Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 148 (actual)
• Sponsor: UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study prospectively evaluates the impact of geriatric assessment reporting in real-time (GARRT) on key hospital based outcomes in a cohort of non-electively hospitalized older (\> 70 years) adults with cancer.

Detailed description

This study evaluates the impact of geriatric assessment reporting in real-time (GARRT) on key hospital based outcomes in non-electively hospitalized older (\> 70 years) adults with cancer. Participants will be randomly assigned to the GARRT group, or the control group. All participants will fill out user friendly questionnaire called the geriatric assessment. The results of the geriatric assessment will be given to the physicians of participants in the GARRT group in real-time. The physicians of participants in the control group will not receive real time results. This study will compare the referral rates of participants in each group to determine if providing real-time results of the geriatric assessment impact referral rates.

Conditions

• Oncology

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Results of the brief geriatric assessment	Providers will receive results of the brief geriatric assessment with recommendations for address deficits identified through the results of the brief geriatric assessment
OTHER	No results of brief geriatric assessments	Providers will not receive results of the brief geriatric assessment. Participants will receive standard of care treatment

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-04-25
• Primary completion: 2018-04-24
• Completion: 2018-04-24
• First posted: 2019-05-15
• Last updated: 2019-05-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States