Improving rural cancer outcomes

A new multi-level complex intervention to redress delays in symptoms appraisal, general practitioner (GP) diagnosis and referral and access to optimal treatments for rural patients with cancer - development phase

Status

Not yet recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12610000872033

Acronym

IRCO

Enrollment

864

Registered

2010-10-18

Start date

2011-01-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

The project will consist of two intimately-linked phases over a five-year term: a development phase, which will identify health system, doctor and patient factors that affect outcomes in rural patients with cancer of the prostate, breast, colorectum or lung and assess their potential to be modified by a complex intervention; and an implementation/evaluation phase, in which the ‘best prospects’ intervention will be rigorously evaluated by an experimental trial.

Interventions

a multi-level complex 'best prospects' intervention will be designed based on a review of the available literature (from all periods) as well as qualitative assessments. The intervention will be designed to redress health system, doctor and patient factors that affect outcomes in rural patients with cancer of the prostate, breast, colorectum or lung. It is expected that the development phase will take approx. 2 years.

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

0 to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

eligible and consenting patients living in selected rural areas with newly diagnosed cancers of the prostate, breast, colorectum or lung

Exclusion criteria

None

Outcome results