Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer
Conditions
Keywords
Telehealth, Cancer Care at Home, 25-055
Brief summary
Many people with cancer spend a lot of time and money traveling to and from the doctor's office for cancer care. MSK's goal is to make getting cancer care easier by cutting down the need to make in-person visits to MSK. MSK is trying to do this through a new option called enhanced telehealth.
Interventions
OTHERExperimental: Enhanced Telehealth (ET)
Patient follows enhanced telehealth practice pattern. As clinically appropriate, patients given option to shift routine care from face-to-face to at-home services available at institution: telehealth visits, home phlebotomy, and educational support for home administration of injection medications
OTHERUsual practice pattern (UPP)
Patient follows usual practice pattern for routine care
Sponsors
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Patients with breast or prostate cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who have had at least 3 prior medical oncology visits.
Exclusion criteria
* Patient is enrolled on a therapeutic clinical trial. * Patients whose primary language is not currently supported by Epic.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Proportion of routine face to face medical oncology related visits out of total medical oncology related visits | 12 months | all patients who meet eligibility criteria and have completed at least 2 medical oncology visits during the 12 month follow up period will be included for endpoint evaluability during analyses |
Countries
United States
Contacts
CONTACTErin Bange, MD, MSCE
CONTACTDeborah Schrag, MD, MPH
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORErin Bange, MD, MSCE
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Outcome results
None listed