NCT06965192

Designing Visual Tools to Enhance Cancer Surgeon Decision-making

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 220 (estimated)
• Sponsor: UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This prospective study will compare pre-post pilot test of surgeon-facing, visual decision support among urologists seeing patients with newly diagnosed localized prostate and kidney cancer. Up to 20 urologists (10 academic and 10 community) will be enrolled. The goal will be to capture up to 10 pre- and 10 post-intervention patient encounters for each urologist with an accrual target of 200 unique patient visits (100 pre and 100 post-intervention) over a half-year period. Patient encounters pre- and post-intervention will be audio recorded, transcribed, and coded for discussion of risks/benefits of surgery and strength of recommendation. Patients and urologists will complete additional surveys on their perceptions of patient-provider communication. Urologists will further describe their experience and rate their satisfaction with visual decision support. Communication (content and perceived) will be compared pre- and post-intervention with secondary comparisons by race and care setting. It was hypothesized that the discussion of risks and benefits of cancer surgery will increase post-intervention and that the strength of recommendation and perceptions of patient-provider communication will change. The secondary hypothesis is that these changes will differ by patient race and care setting.

Conditions

• Prostate Cancer
• Kidney Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Visual	Physician participants will view the visual decision support before entering the patient's room during the intervention period, with the option to share with the patient.
OTHER	No intervention	No intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-04-24
• Primary completion: 2027-06-30
• Completion: 2028-01-30
• First posted: 2025-05-11
• Last updated: 2025-12-05

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States