Integrated Care for Cancer Patients; Developing, Implementing and Testing a Programme to Improve Integrated Care

Radboud University Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Neoplasms

Treatments: Behavioral: integrated care programmes; Behavioral: professional audit and feedback

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00135980

PACT-study M2100

M2100

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compose, implement and evaluate a programme to improve the quality of integrated care for patients with cancer.

Literature will be searched for components of integrated care programmes. On the basis of evidence based multi-disciplinary guidelines and literature on integrated care programmes, a set of indicators will be composed. This set will be measured in 6 hospitals on patients with non-small-cell-lung cancer. In two hospitals, an integrated care programme will be implemented and effects on processes and outcomes of care will be measured.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Each new patient that visits the lung specialist in 6 hospitals in the east part of Holland, in the period from September 2004 till March 2005

Exclusion criteria

• Mortality

Trial design

Primary purpose: Educational/Counseling/Training

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)