Patient Perceptions Around Quality of Care Through Telemedicine in Neuro-Oncology

Study Purpose

This study evaluates patient perceptions around quality of care through telemedicine in neuro-oncology. Studying questionnaires related to perceptions quality of care through telemedicine in patients with brain cancer may help doctors to improve the delivery of care through this modality.

Recruitment Criteria

Accepts Healthy Volunteers Healthy volunteers are participants who do not have a disease or condition, or related conditions or symptoms	No
Study Type An interventional clinical study is where participants are assigned to receive one or more interventions (or no intervention) so that researchers can evaluate the effects of the interventions on biomedical or health-related outcomes. An observational clinical study is where participants identified as belonging to study groups are assessed for biomedical or health outcomes. Searching Both is inclusive of interventional and observational studies.	Observational
Eligible Ages	18 Years and Over
Gender	All

More Inclusion & Exclusion Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Patients with a CNS tumors: this includes patients with primary brain tumors, brain metastases, and leptomeningeal disease.

- Established patients with a follow up encounter with Neuro-Oncology at the Brain and Spine Center at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; this encounter can be.

- An in-person visit.

- A telemedicine appointment.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Encounter occurred with the assistance of official language translation support.

- Patients with telephone encounters (without interactive video) - New patient or consult visits.

- Neither patient nor caregiver present during the visit are available or able to answer survey questions

Trial Details

Trial ID: This trial id was obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov, a service of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, providing information on publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants with locations in all 50 States and in 196 countries.	NCT04988009
Phase Phase 1: Studies that emphasize safety and how the drug is metabolized and excreted in humans. Phase 2: Studies that gather preliminary data on effectiveness (whether the drug works in people who have a certain disease or condition) and additional safety data. Phase 3: Studies that gather more information about safety and effectiveness by studying different populations and different dosages and by using the drug in combination with other drugs. Phase 4: Studies occurring after FDA has approved a drug for marketing, efficacy, or optimal use.
Lead Sponsor The sponsor is the organization or person who oversees the clinical study and is responsible for analyzing the study data.	M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Principal Investigator The person who is responsible for the scientific and technical direction of the entire clinical study.	Barbara J O'Brien, MD
Principal Investigator Affiliation	M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Agency Class Category of organization(s) involved as sponsor (and collaborator) supporting the trial.	Other
Overall Status	Recruiting
Countries	United States
Conditions The disease, disorder, syndrome, illness, or injury that is being studied.	Central Nervous System Neoplasm, Leptomeningeal Neoplasm, Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm in the Brain, Primary Brain Neoplasm
Study Website:	View Trial Website

Additional Details

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:

I. To evaluate the patient-perceived quality of care by group (telemedicine versus in-person visits) in patients with central nervous system (CNS) cancer.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To characterize the visits provided by telemedicine compared to those in-person.

II. To contrast the average time spent on telemedicine visits compared to in-person visits, and the delay between visit order placement and visit occurring.

III. To evaluate the domains of patient care addressed on a telemedicine visit versus in-person visit per documentation, including (1) treatment planning, (2) symptom burden, (3) goals of care.

IV. To evaluate frequency of acute care sought (through emergency room or urgent care clinic) within 30 days of encounter in telemedicine visit versus (vs.#46; in-person visit.

V. The impact of patient and clinical characteristics on perceived quality of care in the context of covariate-adjusted modeling.

OUTLINE: Patients complete a survey related to their perceived quality of care via telephone and have their medical chart reviewed prospectively.

Arms & Interventions

Arms

: Observational (survey, medical chart review)

Patients complete a survey related to their perceived quality of care via telephone and have their medical chart reviewed prospectively.

Interventions

Other: - Electronic Health Record Review

Review of medical chart

Other: - Survey Administration

Complete survey

Contact a Trial Team

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M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

Status

Recruiting

Address

M D Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, Texas, 77030

Site Contact

Barbara J O'Brien, MD

[email protected]

713-794-4380