NCT04136340

Supportive Care Delivered by Telemedicine to Cancer Patients at Home

Virtual Visits by Supportive Care Specialists to Cancer Patients at Home: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Noninferiority Trial of Video Telemedicine

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 33 (actual)
• Sponsor: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study will test whether supportive care follow-up delivered to cancer patients at home by telemedicine ("virtual" medical visits using telecommunications technologies) is as effective as in-person supportive care visits in the clinic.

Detailed description

The protocol was developed and initially implemented when the standard of care for Supportive Care (and oncology) follow-up at MSK was in-person visiting and home telemedicine was only in an early stage of use at the institution. During the COVID-19 crisis, all outpatient Supportive Care visits and most oncology visits at MSK have been handled via telemedicine to protect patient (and staff) safety.

Conditions

• Cancer
• Supportive Care

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	In-person in clinic follow-up visit	Patient will be seen in-person (i.e. an IR/NV or AFX visit) in the clinic by a Supportive Care Specialist for at least 3 follow-up visits over 14 weeks. Any patients randomized to the in-person group who experience an extraordinary burden and/or are physically unable to attend their in-person visits will be able to be seen by their Supportive Care Service clinician via a home telemedicine visit (patients will return to their original group assignment if possible).
OTHER	Telemedicine follow-up visit	i. Patients will be seen by video telemedicine at home by a Supportive Care Specialist for at least 3 follow-up visits over 14 weeks. ii. Patients will have access to a clickable link that will initiate a video telemedicine call to the clinician's office. The clinical team will be responsible for answering such calls and for ensuring the clinician and the patient connect and begin the actual visit.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-10-24
• Primary completion: 2025-07-03
• Completion: 2025-07-03
• First posted: 2019-10-23
• Last updated: 2025-07-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States