Effectiveness of Nursing Case Management for Lung Cancer Patients

Lung Cancer Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effectiveness of Nursing Case Management for Lung Cancer Patients in a Taiwan Medical Center

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02070497
• Other study ID #: 201005083R
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• First received: November 19, 2012
• Last updated: February 24, 2014
• Start date: July 2010
• Est. completion date: December 2011

Study information

• Verified date: February 2014
• Source: National Taiwan University Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Taiwan: Department of Health
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The study is to investigate the effectiveness of nursing case management for lung cancer patients in a Taiwan medical center.

Description:

Purpose: The study is to investigate the effectiveness of nursing case management for lung cancer patients in a Taiwan medical center. The outcome variables include of percentages of patients accepted treatment in our medical center, average lengths of stay, unplanned re-admission rate, average admission times of emergency department per year, percentages of patients rejecting treatment, completing rate of treatment, withdrawing rate of treatment, improving rate of patients' treatment compliance, patients' satisfaction with healthcare, and staffs' satisfaction with case management.

Methods: The study will employ a quasi-experimental research design. The patients with new-diagnosed lung cancer and accepting case management will be assigned to the experimental group； The patients with new-diagnosed lung cancer in the period of one year ago and without accepting case management will be assigned to the control group；The third group is the patients with non-new-diagnosed lung cancer and with accepting case management. The staffs are the doctors within the lung cancer medical team.

The lung cancer case management database, patients' satisfaction questionnaire, and staffs' satisfaction questionnaire will be used to measure the effectiveness. Statistical software SPSS for Windows version 17.0 will be used to analyze the data.

Expected results: The research outcome will to confirm the impact of case management on the lung cancer patients and could be the reference data for future cancer case management model.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 415
• Est. completion date: December 2011
• Est. primary completion date: August 2011
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 20 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients with lung cancer

Exclusion Criteria:

• younger than 20 years old

Study Design

Allocation: Non-Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Health Services Research

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Lung Cancer
• Lung Neoplasms

Intervention

Other:
• case management
case management group will accept the case manager's service; the control group will just accept the routine care

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Taiwan	National Taiwan University Hospital Research Ethics Committee	Taipei

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
National Taiwan University Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Taiwan, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	chart review	We reviewed the chart and lung cancer case management database to collect the patients' healthy outcome. The outcome variables include of percentages of patients accepted treatment in our medical center, average lengths of stay, unplanned re-admission rate, average admission times of emergency department per year, percentages of patients rejecting treatment, completing rate of treatment, withdrawing rate of treatment, improving rate of patients' treatment compliance.	One year	No
Secondary	patients' satisfaction questionnaire		1 day	No
Secondary	staffs' satisfaction questionnaire		1 day	No