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2024-10-26 @ 9:14 AM
Study NCT ID:
NCT00141635
Status:
COMPLETED
Last Update Posted:
2005-09-01
First Post:
2005-08-31
Brief Title:
Implementation of Quality of Life Diagnostics and Therapy
Sponsor:
Tumor Center Regensburg
Organization:
Tumor Center Regensburg
Study Overview
Official Title:
Enhancing the Status of Quality of Life Diagnostics in Caring for Breast Cancer Patients Results From a Multilevel Implementation Study in a Regional Tumor Centre
Status:
COMPLETED
Status Verified Date:
2005-08
Last Known Status:
None
Delayed Posting:
No
If Stopped, Why?:
Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access:
False
If Expanded Access, NCT#:
N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status:
N/A
Acronym:
None
Brief Summary:
Implementation and Evaluation of Implementation of Quality of Life Diagnostics and Therapy in Individual Patients with Breast Cancer A prospective study including 170 patients 5 clinics and 38 general practitioners as coordinating doctors for quality of life therapies Correlational study including several comparisons such as patients and their doctors
Detailed Description:
Improving cancer patients quality of life QL requires that QL-diagnostics the availability of QL-enhancing treatment options and treatment decisions are being integrated into a clinical path This description presents the development and implementation of such a clinical path in the Tumorcenter Regensburg
The acting persons and institutions in this clinical path are the breast cancer patients the hospitals the family doctors or gynaecologists and a QL-study team Starting point is the QL-assessment either in the hospital or in doctors practice EORTC QLQ-C30 plus BR-23 The caring physician documents the patients health status Based on these two pieces of information the QL-study team writes up a medicalQL-opinion plus therapy recommendation This report is sent to the caring physician The effectiveness of the therapy recommendation is assessed in the following QL-assessment This clinical path is implemented via three interrelated methods of implementation local opinion leaders outreach visits and quality circle
A total of 38 physicians were made familiar with QL-diagnostics through outreach visits and 12 opinion leaders were identified and convinced to support this project The quality circle provided regular CME meetings on QL-enhancing therapy options pain control psychotherapy physiotherapy nutrition social rehabilitation A total of 170 QL-reports were sent to physicians All 38 doctors found the QL-profiles comprehensible and the therapy recommendations clinically relevant The most common QL-problems were emotional functioning fatigue and armshoulder problems
QL-diagnostics is a new way to individualise and to rationalise patient care It transforms the QL-concept into a decision-relevant integral part of a clinical path that aims to provide high quality patient care
The acting persons and institutions in this clinical path are the breast cancer patients the hospitals the family doctors or gynaecologists and a QL-study team Starting point is the QL-assessment either in the hospital or in doctors practice EORTC QLQ-C30 plus BR-23 The caring physician documents the patients health status Based on these two pieces of information the QL-study team writes up a medicalQL-opinion plus therapy recommendation This report is sent to the caring physician The effectiveness of the therapy recommendation is assessed in the following QL-assessment This clinical path is implemented via three interrelated methods of implementation local opinion leaders outreach visits and quality circle
A total of 38 physicians were made familiar with QL-diagnostics through outreach visits and 12 opinion leaders were identified and convinced to support this project The quality circle provided regular CME meetings on QL-enhancing therapy options pain control psychotherapy physiotherapy nutrition social rehabilitation A total of 170 QL-reports were sent to physicians All 38 doctors found the QL-profiles comprehensible and the therapy recommendations clinically relevant The most common QL-problems were emotional functioning fatigue and armshoulder problems
QL-diagnostics is a new way to individualise and to rationalise patient care It transforms the QL-concept into a decision-relevant integral part of a clinical path that aims to provide high quality patient care
Study Oversight
Has Oversight DMC:
None
Is a FDA Regulated Drug?:
None
Is a FDA Regulated Device?:
None
Is an Unapproved Device?:
None
Is a PPSD?:
None
Is a US Export?:
None
Is an FDA AA801 Violation?:
None
Secondary IDs
| Secondary ID | Type | Domain | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 358203-111702 | None | None | None |