Satisfaction With Placement of Implantable Venous Access Devices in Patients With Solid Tumors

Vanderbilt University

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Unspecified Adult Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific

Treatments: Other: questionnaire administration; Other: survey administration; Other: medical chart review; Other: computer-assisted intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01098643

CDR0000669012

P30CA068485 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

VU-VICC-SUPP-0982

Details and patient eligibility

About

RATIONALE: Gathering information about patients with solid tumors who have implantable venous access devices may help doctors learn more about patient satisfaction.

PURPOSE: This phase I trial is studying satisfaction with placement of implantable venous access devices in patients with solid tumors.

Full description

OBJECTIVES:

• To determine patient satisfaction with subcutaneous venous-access device placement in oncology patients.

OUTLINE: Patients complete a computer-based survey while in the treatment area of the Vanderbilt Oncology Clinic. Basic demographic information and basic information regarding the placement of the device and complications are collected from the patient's medical record.

Enrollment: 88 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 120 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

• Diagnosis of a solid tumor malignancy

  • No hematological malignancy

• Patient at the Vanderbilt Oncology Clinic

• Has undergone placement of a subcutaneous, single-lumen venous-access device within the past 6 months

  • No patients who have had ≥ 2 venous-access devices placed by ≥ 1 department

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

• Not specified

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

• See Disease Characteristics
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