Implementation of Quality of Life Diagnostics & Therapy

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

Implementation and Evaluation of Implementation of Quality of Life Diagnostics and Therapy in Individual Patients with Breast Cancer. A prospective study including 170 patients, 5 clinics and 38 general practitioners as coordinating doctors for quality of life therapies. Correlational study including several comparisons such as patients and their doctors.

Clinical Trial Description

Improving cancer patients' quality of life (QL) requires that QL-diagnostics, the availability of QL-enhancing treatment options and treatment decisions are being integrated into a clinical path. This description presents the development and implementation of such a clinical path in the Tumorcenter Regensburg.

The acting persons and institutions in this clinical path are the breast cancer patients, the hospitals, the family doctors or gynaecologists, and a QL-study team. Starting point is the QL-assessment either in the hospital or in doctors' practice (EORTC QLQ-C30 plus BR-23). The caring physician documents the patients' health status. Based on these two pieces of information, the QL-study team writes up a medical/QL-opinion plus therapy recommendation. This report is sent to the caring physician. The effectiveness of the therapy recommendation is assessed in the following QL-assessment. This clinical path is implemented via three interrelated methods of implementation: local opinion leaders, outreach visits, and quality circle.

A total of 38 physicians were made familiar with QL-diagnostics through outreach visits, and 12 opinion leaders were identified and convinced to support this project. The quality circle provided regular CME meetings on QL-enhancing therapy options (pain control, psychotherapy, physiotherapy, nutrition, social rehabilitation). A total of 170 QL-reports were sent to physicians. All 38 doctors found the QL-profiles comprehensible and the therapy recommendations clinically relevant. The most common QL-problems were emotional functioning, fatigue, and arm/shoulder problems.

QL-diagnostics is a new way to individualise and to rationalise patient care. It transforms the QL-concept into a decision-relevant, integral part of a clinical path that aims to provide high quality patient care. ;

Study Design

Observational Model: Defined Population, Time Perspective: Longitudinal

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

Breast Neoplasms

Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT00141635
Study type	Observational
Source	Tumorzentrum Regensburg e.V.
Contact
Status	Completed
Phase	Phase 1
Start date	December 2002
Completion date	June 2004

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