Early Integrated Telehealth Versus In-Person Palliative Care for Patients With Lung Cancer

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Conditions studied: Lung Cancer

In brief

This research study is evaluating ways to provide palliative care to patients who have recently been diagnosed with lung cancer and their families.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03375489

Run by

Massachusetts General Hospital

People needed

1798

Starts

2018-06-15

Expected to finish

2024-12-31

Last updated by the study team

2025-05-16

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Patient Eligibility Criteria
• Diagnosed with advanced non-small cell lung cancer being treated with non-curative intent, and informed of advanced disease within the prior twelve weeks
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status from 0 (asymptomatic) to 3 (symptomatic and in bed >50% of the day)
• The ability to read and respond to questions in English or Spanish
• Receiving primary cancer care at one of the participating sites
• Age > or = 18 years
• Lives in a state where their institutions' palliative care clinicians are licensed to practice
• Caregiver Eligibility Criteria
• Relative or friend who is identified by the patient participant and lives with the patient or has contact with them at least twice per week
• The ability to read and respond to questions in English or Spanish
• Age > or = 18 years

You may not qualify if…

• Patient Exclusion Criteria
• Already receiving outpatient palliative care or hospice services
• Cognitive or psychiatric conditions as determined by the treating oncologist to prohibit study consent or participation
• Caregiver Exclusion Criteria
• Cognitive or psychiatric conditions as determined by the treating oncologist to prohibit study consent or participation

Where it is running

• University of Alabama at Birmingham — Birmingham, Alabama, United States
• City of Hope — Los Angeles, California, United States
• University of California - San Francisco — San Francisco, California, United States
• University of Colorado — Aurora, Colorado, United States
• Emory University — Atlanta, Georgia, United States
• Northwestern University School of Medicine — Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Rush University Medical Center — Chicago, Illinois, United States
• University of Kansas Medical Center — Westwood, Kansas, United States
• Johns Hopkins Medicine — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
• Massachusetts General Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Dana Farber Cancer Institute — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• University of Michigan — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
• Mayo Clinic in Rochester — Rochester, Minnesota, United States
• Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health — Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
• Wake Forest University — Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
• Cleveland Clinic — Cleveland, Ohio, United States
• Fox Chase Cancer Center — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• Vanderbilt University — Nashville, Tennessee, United States
• University of Texas at Austin — Austin, Texas, United States
• UT Southwestern Medical Center — Dallas, Texas, United States
• University of Virginia — Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
• University of Wisconsin — Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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