Physician Use of Non-English Language Skills in Cancer Care

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

NCT02726360

15-316

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