Visual Management for the Radiotherapy Process

NCT ID: NCT01854541

Last Updated: 2015-04-10

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 10000 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2013-03-31
• Study Completion Date: 2015-01-31

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.

Conditions

Cancer

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT

Study Groups

Radiotherapy

All patients receiving radiotherapy

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Patients receiving radiotherapy

Exclusion Criteria

Patients not receiving radiotherapy

• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Maastro Clinic, The Netherlands

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Maastricht Radiation Oncology

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

MAASTRO clinic

Maastricht, , Netherlands

Countries

Netherlands

Other Identifiers

VMRTP

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id