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Physician Use of Non-English Language Skills in Cancer Care

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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Breast Cancer
Colon Cancer
Lung Cancer

Treatments

Behavioral: Audio record
Behavioral: survey

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to test a method for analyzing interactions between patients and doctors, the Roter Interaction Analysis System (RIAS). The RIAS measures the quality of communication between patients and their cancer doctors.

Enrollment

71 patients

Sex

All

Ages

21 to 80 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • is a English or Spanish-speaking patient
  • between the ages of 21-80 years old
  • has a new diagnosis of any type of cancer (diagnosed within the past 4 months), or has a recurrence of either breast, colon or lung cancer (recurrence diagnosed within the past 4 months)
  • scheduled to have surgery or begin chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy within the next 2 months

Oncology clinician Inclusion:

  • provides care to LEP patients
  • has MD, DO, RN, NP or PA degree
  • is between the ages of 21-80

Exclusion criteria

  • is unable to provide informed consent in either English or Spanish

Trial design

71 participants in 2 patient groups

Oncology physician
Description:
Physicians (MD or DO) in the oncology departments of participating hospitals will complete a survey. Non-English language proficiency will be assessed by self-assessment using Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) scale, which the PI has previously used. The physician survey is collected among treating physicians of patients enrolled to MSK IRB approved protocols 12-099 and 12-223 at some of the participating hospitals. For physicians who already completed this survey as part of participation in protocol 12-099 or 12-223, data will be extracted from the respective study's REDCap database.
Treatment:
Behavioral: survey
Behavioral: Audio record
patients
Description:
Audio record the initial visits between patients and their treating physician. Analyze 48 patient-physician dyad recordings using the Roter Interaction Analysis System (RIAS).
Treatment:
Behavioral: Audio record

Trial documents
1

Trial contacts and locations

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