TeamTalk: Improving Inter-professional Communication During Cancer Treatment

The Washington University

Status: Begins enrollment in a year or more

Conditions: Pediatric Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Multi-level communication intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT07083674

1R01CA287374 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

202503183

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study focuses on improving interprofessional communication during cancer treatment, through an individual and hospital system intervention, to improve provider outcomes, patient care, and, ultimately, survival for children with cancer in low-resource settings.

Enrollment: 8 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Hospitals identified as being in lowest quartile of communication quality, as defined by prior cross-sectional CritCom analysis and measured as the overall CritCom score.
• All Global Alliance hospitals providing childhood cancer care will be eligible to participate.
• Individual participants will be included if they care for hospitalized children with cancer at risk of deterioration.

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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8 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

This study includes an intervention development phase (Aim 2) during which the intervention content and delivery mechanisms will be finalized. We will implement the multilevel intervention developed in Aim 2. We anticipate this will consist of one instance of intervention at each hospital and we will develop a full intervention manual following Aim 2. Details regarding the intervention will be updated prior to participant enrollment in the trial.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Multi-level communication intervention

Waitlist Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

The wait list control is a group that does not receive an intervention during the study period, serving as an untreated comparison during the study, although they later receive the intervention. This intervention will be delivered after the completion of the last data collection instance.