Multi-disciplinary Care for Brain Metastases

University of Vermont Medical Center

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Brain Metastases, Adult

Treatments: Other: health services intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06280300

UVMMC2203

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a health services intervention study aimed at understanding the impact of intensive multi-disciplinary care compared with standard care on patient-reported symptom outcomes and prognostic awareness in patients with brain metastases.

Full description

This is a cohort study of patient with newly diagnosed brain metastases assigned to standard of care (SOC) or intensive multi-disciplinary care (IMDC). Care for all patients with brain metastases involves complex medical decision making and requires input for multiple stakeholders, including medical oncology, neurosurgery, radiation oncology, and neuro-oncology. Palliative care should be an essential component of the care team for all patients with brain metastases by the very nature of this advanced malignancy. At the University of Vermont, our current process for diagnosis and management of patients with brain metastases relies heavily on the physician and team who make the initial diagnosis to consult others as they see appropriate. This process may look different for different patients. We rationalize that a systematic approach with intensive multidisciplinary care (IMDC) will benefit patients with brain metastases by providing consistent access to multi-disciplinary discussion.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients of all genders must be at least 18 years of age.
• Patients must have histologically confirmed, newly diagnosed brain metastases from known or suspected solid tumor primary neoplasms.
• Patients must be able to accurately provide self-report data (e.g. per clinical judgment, cognitive function is intact).
• Patients must be able to complete questionnaires in English.
• Patients must have the ability to provide informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who are < 18 years of age are not eligible.
• Patients who are Pregnant are not eligible.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Standard of Care

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: health services intervention

Multidisciplinary Care

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: health services intervention