Default Options to Reduce Unnecessary Daily Imaging During Palliative Radiation

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Cancer

In brief

The goal of this study is to reduce preference sensitive, unnecessary daily imaging during radiation treatment in which a pre-planned quality improvement default option for radiation treatment prescriptions will be introduced throughout the network of Penn Radiation Oncology.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03110692

Run by

University of Pennsylvania

People needed

1188

Starts

2016-02-10

Expected to finish

2018-02-09

Last updated by the study team

2019-12-09

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Radiation treatment courses with palliative intent
• Palliative treatment of bone, soft tissue, and intracranial metastases
• Photon radiation with 3D conformal therapy (3DCRT) only

You may not qualify if…

• Use of intensity modulated radiation (IMRT) or stereotactic body radiation (SBRT) as radiation treatment modality
• Retreatment to same site
• Proton radiation

Where it is running

• University of Pennsylvania Health System — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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