A Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Sensitivity of a Number of Clinical and Psychological Outcome Measures for Cancer Patients Being Treated at the Hospital Day Care Unit or (Partially) at Home

General Hospital Groeninge

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cancer

Treatments: Procedure: Oncological Home Hospitalization

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03073499

GHGroeninge

Details and patient eligibility

About

This pilot study aims to evaluate the sensitivity, variability and responsiveness of a number of predefined clinical and psychological outcome measuring tools in an ambulant cancer treatment setting (home vs. hospital). The measuring tools will be evaluated in two patient cohorts. One cohort is treated as per standard of care at the outpatient hospital, the other cohort is receiving (partial) cancer treatment at home. A second objective is to create a costs inventory representing total costs for an ambulant treated cancer patient.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Starting new oncological treatment at the outpatient hospital.
• ECOG ≤ 2
• Living within 30 minutes of drive from the hospital

Exclusion criteria

• Important comorbidity (ECOG > 2)
• Simultaneous radiotherapy treatment
• Language barriers or communication difficulties
• Problematic venous access
• Known problems with administration of the therapy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

---

60 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

(Partial) Oncological Home Hospitalization

Treatment:

Procedure: Oncological Home Hospitalization

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Standard oncological treatment at the hospital day care unit