A Study to Optimize Care for Lung Cancer Patients Undergoing Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS)

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Lung Cancer

Treatments: Other: VATS-associated best practices

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT02502695

15-193

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a research study for participants who have been diagnosed with lung cancer and are receiving VATS (Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery) lobectomy or segmentectomy. The overall objective of this study is to develop a database to collect data on participants who are undergoing VATS lobectomy or segmentectomy for lung cancer.

Full description

This database will be used as for quality improvement purposes. Furthermore, the database will help in collecting data in an organized fashion, which will help the investigators learn more about the details of the workup performed prior to the surgery, during the surgery, peri-operative management and early follow-up. The investigators hope that this database will help to determine a common guideline to perform VATS lobectomy or segmentectomy. By creating a common guideline for future treatment of VATS patients, the investigators predict the efficiency of the process will increase significantly without decreasing, and perhaps even improving, the quality of the procedure.

Enrollment: 173 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Male and female subjects
• Age ≥ 18 years
• Underwent a VATS lobectomy or segmentectomy procedure for lung cancer -- Note: patients with other malignancies are eligible if they have a primary cancer of the lung as defined above

Exclusion criteria

• Subjects undergoing thoracotomy lobectomy or segmentectomy for lung cancer
• Subjects undergoing surgical procedures other than VATS lobectomy or segmentectomy for lung cancer

Trial design

173 participants in 2 patient groups

Cohort 1-VATS-associated best practices

Description:

* Data to be collected will include demographic data and information about the pre-operative workup, surgical procedure, postoperative course and early discharge course for these patients. * After the last patient completes the 30-day post surgery follow-up, the investigators will determine a set of best practices to implement at each of the sites for the quality improvement initiative. During the assessment period, no patients will be enrolled into the study.

Treatment:

Other: VATS-associated best practices

Cohort 2-VATS-associated best practices

Description:

-Once the set of VATS-associated best practices, an additional cohort of approximately 200 patients will be enrolled and followed in a manner identical to the first cohort.

Treatment:

Other: VATS-associated best practices