Automated Geriatric Co-Management Program in Older Patients With Solid Mass or Nodule Suspicious for Cancer

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Cancer

Treatments: Other: automated geriatric co-management; Other: in-person geriatric co-management

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03885908

19-066

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to find out if it is possible to use the automated geriatric co-management program to manage the participants care before, during and after surgery.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Solid mass or nodule suspicious for cancer
• Aged 65 or older
• Being considered for surgical resection of the solid mass or nodule, with anticipated hospital length of stay of at least two days,
• Completed the eRFA per routine care

Exclusion criteria

• Unable to read or comprehend English
• Not having a completed electronic Rapid Fitness Assessment within 2 months of surgery**Note) To avoid excluding patients based this item, patients have to complete another eRFA within two months of surgery.
• Being discharged in one day or earlier from the hospital.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 2 patient groups

In-person geriatric co-management group

Active Comparator group

Description:

"In-person" geriatric consults to be done via telemedicine due to the current pandemic and consideration for patient safety.

Treatment:

Other: in-person geriatric co-management

Automated geriatric co-management program group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: automated geriatric co-management