Effectiveness of Nursing Case Management for Lung Cancer Patients

National Taiwan University

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: Lung Cancer

Treatments: Other: case management

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02070497

201005083R

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study is to investigate the effectiveness of nursing case management for lung cancer patients in a Taiwan medical center.

Full description

Purpose: The study is to investigate the effectiveness of nursing case management for lung cancer patients in a Taiwan medical center. The outcome variables include of percentages of patients accepted treatment in our medical center, average lengths of stay, unplanned re-admission rate, average admission times of emergency department per year, percentages of patients rejecting treatment, completing rate of treatment, withdrawing rate of treatment, improving rate of patients' treatment compliance, patients' satisfaction with healthcare, and staffs' satisfaction with case management.

Methods: The study will employ a quasi-experimental research design. The patients with new-diagnosed lung cancer and accepting case management will be assigned to the experimental group； The patients with new-diagnosed lung cancer in the period of one year ago and without accepting case management will be assigned to the control group；The third group is the patients with non-new-diagnosed lung cancer and with accepting case management. The staffs are the doctors within the lung cancer medical team.

The lung cancer case management database, patients' satisfaction questionnaire, and staffs' satisfaction questionnaire will be used to measure the effectiveness. Statistical software SPSS for Windows version 17.0 will be used to analyze the data.

Expected results: The research outcome will to confirm the impact of case management on the lung cancer patients and could be the reference data for future cancer case management model.

Enrollment: 415 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients with lung cancer

Exclusion criteria

• younger than 20 years old

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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415 participants in 3 patient groups

case management_new

Experimental group

Description:

The patients with new-diagnosed lung cancer and accepting case management

Treatment:

Other: case management

case management_old

Experimental group

Description:

the patients with non-new-diagnosed lung cancer and with accepting case management

Treatment:

Other: case management

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The patients with new-diagnosed lung cancer in the period of one year ago and without accepting case management