Enhancing Cancer Care Of Rural Dwellers (ENCORE)

Debra Friedman

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Cancer

Treatments: Other: VUMC telehealth services; Other: Interview; Other: Educational materials

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT04758338

VICC PED 2013

R01CA240093-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Through a multi-level remote intervention, the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) seeks to improve comprehensive cancer care delivery to patients residing in rural communities with persistent poverty. We plan to do this by using telehealth to broaden the reach of our NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center in these communities

Full description

Objectives:

• Evaluate the clinical effectiveness of a multi-level telehealth-based intervention for rural hospitals consisting of provider access to tumor board expertise that incorporates disease, patient and molecular tumor characteristics, together with patient access to a supportive care intervention to improve cancer care delivery.
• Evaluate the facilitators and barriers to future larger-scale dissemination and implementation of the multi-level intervention, designed to enhance quality rural cancer care delivery.

Enrollment: 814 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Provider and Patient:

• At least 21 years of age or older and English speaking with the ability to provide informed consent

• Oncology providers within designated VHAN oncology practices
• Newly diagnosed or relapsed cancer patients of aforementioned oncology providers

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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814 participants in 2 patient groups

CTS Program Arm

Experimental group

Description:

6-week intervention delivered via telehealth using the VUMC telehealth services.

Treatment:

Other: Interview

Other: VUMC telehealth services

Education Attention Control Arm

Active Comparator group

Description:

Receive educational materials either online, by email, or in print form.

Treatment:

Other: Educational materials