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Brief Title: Bilingual Electronic Symptom Management Program Across Multi-site, Comprehensive Cancer Center
Official Title: Implementation and Evaluation of an Expanded Bilingual Electronic Symptom Management Program Across a Multi-site, Fully-integrated Comprehensive Cancer Center
Study ID: NCT03988543
Brief Summary: Cancer, and cancer treatment, cause many symptoms that can negatively affect quality of life. Despite the development of improved symptom management interventions and several evidence- and consensus-based guidelines, their timely delivery remains uneven in the health care system. Our research center, Northwestern University IMPACT (NU IMPACT), builds upon an electronic health record (EHR)-integrated cancer symptom monitoring and management system, currently deployed by our health care system. We are testing the effectiveness of a system-wide symptom management intervention and the EHR-integrated enhanced care approach, which offers a more personalized symptom monitoring and management experience based on a person's unique needs and language (i.e., English or Spanish).
Detailed Description: Using a clinic-level randomized roll-out implementation trial design, we will test the effectiveness of an enhanced care (EC) approach aimed to engage participants actively, and to increase self-efficacy, in the monitoring and managing of their symptoms. The existing EHR-integrated symptom monitoring system will constitute usual care (UC), and added patient engagement and activation features will comprise the EC condition. Project aims target both patient- and system-level outcomes. Aim 1: Implement a fully-integrated oncology symptom assessment and management program across six clinical units that are part of the NMHC healthcare delivery system; Aim 2: Evaluate the impact of the program by conducting a hybrid Type I effectiveness-implementation trial to evaluate the enhanced care program (EC: symptom monitoring \& self-management intervention), relative to usual care (UC) on patient- and system-level outcomes; Aim 3: Identify facilitators and barriers to implementation and disseminate to other health systems. We will enroll an estimated 12,671 participants. To address possible contamination effects within each clinical unit, and allow for unit-level data collection for pre- and post-implementation comparison within and across clinical units, 50% will be enrolled and followed prior to program implementation. The other half will be enrolled post-implementation and will be randomly assigned at a 1:1 ratio (stratified by sex and cancer phase; curative intent, non-curative intent \& survivorship) to UC versus EC. Fatigue, pain, anxiety, and depression will be assessed using Patient Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS®) computerized adaptive tests (CATs). In addition, we will assess patient clinical outcomes, including healthcare utilization, and cancer treatment delivery outcomes.
Minimum Age: 18 Years
Eligible Ages: ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Sex: ALL
Healthy Volunteers: No
Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Name: David Cella, PhD
Affiliation: Northwestern University
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR