Visual Management for the Radiotherapy Process

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01854541

Acronym

VMRTP

Enrollment

10000

Registered

2013-05-15

Start date

2013-03-31

Completion date

2015-01-31

Last updated

2015-04-10

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Conditions

Cancer

Keywords

Cancer, Radiotherapy

Brief summary

The Visual Management for Radiotherapy Practice (VMRTP) aims to analyze, predict, visualize and shorten the waiting times for radiotherapy patients. The hypothesis is that this can be done by the introduction of models that can predict a patient being at risk for waiting too long as well as visual management tools that visualize the radiotherapy process.

Detailed description

In a retrospective cohort of radiotherapy patients, time stamps of various steps in the radiotherapy process (diagnosis, multi-disciplinary board, referral, intake, simulation, treatment planning, quality control, first fraction of radiotherapy) will be collected. These will be combined with patient, tumor and patient-process (e.g. referring physician, treating physician, busy-at-the-time, referring hospital) related features. Based on these a predictive model will be learned that can estimate the probability at various stages of the process that the patient waits too long. Visual management will be developed that can visualize the predicted waiting time. Process interventions aimed at reducing waiting times will be tested prospectively.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients receiving radiotherapy

Exclusion criteria

Patients not receiving radiotherapy

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
referral and first day of radiotherapy	3 months	Waiting time between referral and first day of radiotherapy

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Diagnosis and first day of radiotherapy	3 months	Waiting time between diagnosis and first day of radiotherapy
multi-disciplinary board and first day of radiotherapy	3 months	Waiting time between multi-disciplinary board and first day of radiotherapy
intake and first day of radiotherapy	3 months	Waiting time between intake and first day of radiotherapy
simulation and first day of radiotherapy	3 months	Waiting time between simulation and first day of radiotherapy

Countries

Netherlands

Outcome results