Quality of Care in Relationship to Aborted Cancer Surgery

Cancer, Gastrointestinal Clinical Trial

Official title:

Developing Patient-centered Interventions to Improve the Quality of Care in Relationship to Aborted Cancer Surgery

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05808712
• Other study ID #: ACS
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: March 1, 2023
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2028

Study information

• Verified date: April 2023
• Source: Linkoeping University
• Contact: Jenny Drott, PhD
• Phone: +46 732701839
• Email: Jenny.Drott[@]liu.se
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Surgery is often a central curative treatment for gastrointestinal tumors. Surgical treatment of diagnosed cancer tumors is decided after a comprehensive assessment of the patient's physical status, radiological assessments and after careful evaluation at the multidisciplinary conference. Despite the careful preoperative assessment of patients for curative surgery, the planned operation may unexpectedly need to be canceled. Of the patients who were planned for curative resection for pancreatic cancer in 2021 in Sweden, 90% received the intended surgery, and 10% of planned surgery was canceled. The reason for this was disseminated cancer or locally advanced disease in which radical resection is considered impossible to carry out. A systematic review of knowledge reveals a significant lack of evidence regarding patient-centered research and aborted cancer surgery.

The studies in the project have different study designs and methods, and include focus group interviews with staff, translation and validation of a questionnaire to measure care needs, estimation of supportive care needs and patient experiences.

An improved understanding and knowledge of patients' preferences and needs is needed to design interventions that can improve health-related quality of life. This project is dedicated to studying patients undergoing aborted cancer surgery, with the aim of improving the quality of care and meeting patients' care needs.

Description:

The overall objective of this research project is to:

• describe the patients experiences and assess supportive care needs following aborted cancer gastrointestinal surgery

• increase knowledge of the healthcare professionals' experiences of aborted cancer surgery from a multi-professional and continuum of cancer care perspective

• increase our clinical knowledge of patient preferences and healthcare professionals' perspective to develop tailored patient-centered interventions with the goal to improve quality of cancer care

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 350
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2028
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2028
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• >18 years

• cancer patients with different gastrointestinal cancer diagnosis

Exclusion Criteria:

• not able to answer the questionnarie SCNS-SF34 in Swedish.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cancer, Gastrointestinal
• Gastrointestinal Neoplasms

Intervention

Other:
• validation
Translation and validation design

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Sweden	Department of Surgery	Linköping
Sweden	Jenny Drott	Linköping

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Linkoeping University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Sweden, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	supportive care needs, questonnarie	psychometric properties in the swedish version of the questionnarie SCNS-SF34	March 2023 - March 2024
Primary	Rate of supportive care needs in cancer	assessment of supportive care needs via the questionnarie SCNS-SF34 (in Swedish)	March 2023 - March 2024