Cancer Shared Care Project Study

Randomised Controlled Trial of a Shared Care Model of Care for patients receiving chemotherapy in a tertiary setting and their General Practitioners, to ascertain benefits to the patient's wellbeing, GP confidence and cost benefit to the tertiary health provider

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12606000022561

Enrollment

240

Registered

2006-01-13

Start date

2005-11-11

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

A trial to determine the efficacy of a shared care model of care for patients receiving chemotherapy for lymphoma or breast cancer at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, WA.

Interventions

Shared Care model - comprised of 1. Patient Held Record 2. GP education 3. Increased GP involvement 4. Shared Care coordinator The duration of the intervention/control will be for the length of time that the patient is receiving chemotherapy. patients.

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Educational / counselling / training

Masking

Open (masking not used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

0 to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Newly diagnosed B cell lymphoma or early breast cancer patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy.- Patient consent-GP consent.

Exclusion criteria

Inability to understand or complete trial documentation-Patient's GP is already participating in the trial.

Outcome results