Effectiveness of Nursing Case Management for Lung Cancer Patients

NCT ID: NCT02070497

Last Updated: 2014-02-25

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE2

Total Enrollment

415 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2010-07-31

Study Completion Date

2011-12-31

Brief Summary

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

Detailed Description

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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.

Conditions

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Lung Cancer

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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case management_new

The patients with new-diagnosed lung cancer and accepting case management

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

case management

Intervention Type OTHER

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

case management_old

the patients with non-new-diagnosed lung cancer and with accepting case management

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

case management

Intervention Type OTHER

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

control group

The patients with new-diagnosed lung cancer in the period of one year ago and without accepting case management

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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case management

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

Intervention Type OTHER

Other Intervention Names

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nursing case management

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* patients with lung cancer

Exclusion Criteria

* younger than 20 years old
Minimum Eligible Age

20 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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National Taiwan University Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Ming-Ying Hong, RN, Master

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Department of Nursing, National Taiwan University Hospital

Locations

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National Taiwan University Hospital Research Ethics Committee

Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

Site Status

Countries

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Taiwan

Other Identifiers

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201005083R

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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