Practices and Organizations Related to Emerging Occupations of Care (EPOCK) Coordination in Oncology

NCT ID: NCT03350776

Last Updated: 2020-06-19

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 960 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2018-04-17
• Study Completion Date: 2019-10-30

Brief Summary

Several stakeholders are implied in cancer care pathways and there is a need for coordinating their actions. New occupations of care coordination have thus emerged. However, the conditions of their efficiency have been too few reported and included discrepancies between reports. In this context, the main objective is to propose a modeling of care coordination and associated emerging occupations (nurse-based) by comparing theoretical expected outcomes to professionals, patients and caregivers representations.

Detailed Description

Several stakeholders are implied in cancer care pathways and there is a need to coordinate their actions. New occupations of care coordination have thus emerged, such as nurse coordinator in France (IDEC: Infirmière de Coordination). However, the conditions of their efficiency are not well known. Moreover, several other complementary approaches and nurse occupations have to be identified because of their contribution to care coordination (IDE TAS, IPO, IDE AMA, IDE-CO, IDE HAD-CAD, IDE ETP)*. Finally, all together, these interventions of care coordination appeared as complex and asked for a theoretical model. Because of this high variability of the practices, without an underlying model, the impact of care coordination on patient quality of life, safety and efficiency of care is difficult to assess. In this context, the main objective is to propose a modeling of care coordination and associated emerging occupations by comparing theoretical expected outcomes to professionals, patients and caregivers representations.

The pilot observational study is based on three distinct stages: (1) the definition of care coordination in oncology using a literature review and a Delphi consensus study; (2) the description of practices, contexts, perceptions and attitudes related to care coordination occupations in oncology using a qualitative and a cross-sectional quantitative survey; (3) the comparison of the practices to the theoretical model to propose a modeling of care coordination occupations in oncology.

Conditions

Care Coordination in Oncology

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: OTHER
• Study Time Perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL

Interventions

Care coordination

Care coordination and associated emerging occupations by comparing theoretical expected outcomes to professionals, patients and caregivers representations

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• For health institutions: public or private institutions in which nurses contributing to care coordination. Each institution will be associated with one type of coordination occupation, even if other healthcare workers contribute to care coordination in the same institution.
• For professionals of care coordination: nurses contributing to care coordination in oncology (IDEC , IDE TAS, IPO, IDE AMA, IDE-CO, IDE HAD-CAD or IDE ETP)
• For professionals working with professionals of care coordination:

• Medical and non-medical healthcare professionals (oncologist, surgeon, nurses…), administrative professionals (secretary…), professionals of supportive care (psychologists, social workers…) and volunteers in patient organizations.
• Private practitioners: general practitioner, private nurses, pharmacist
• For the patients : adults under supervision of the selected professionals of care coordination for at least four weeks and able to express themselves
• For the caregivers: family caregivers of the selected patients.

Exclusion Criteria

• For health institutions: private healthcare networks, territorial support platforms, home-based care providers, healthcare houses
• For professionals of care coordination: coordinating medical doctors of care networks, coordinating medical doctors of hospital care at home, practitioners of regional cancer networks.
• For the patients: <18 years old

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

University Hospital, Bordeaux

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

Institut Sainte Catherine

Avignon, , France

CHU de Bordeaux

Bordeaux, , France

Clinique Tiivoli Ducos

Bordeaux, , France

CH Sud Gironde

Langon, , France

CH de Libourne

Libourne, , France

Institut Curie

Paris, , France

Institut de Cancérologie de la Loire

Saint-Priest, , France

HAD Bagatelle

Talence, , France

CHU de Toulouse

Toulouse, , France

Institut Claudius Regaud

Toulouse, , France

Countries

France

References

Colombani F, Sibe M, Kret M, Quintard B, Ravaud A, Saillour-Glenisson F. EPOCK study protocol: a mixed-methods research program evaluating cancer care coordination nursing occupations in France as a complex intervention. BMC Health Serv Res. 2019 Jul 12;19(1):483. doi: 10.1186/s12913-019-4307-7.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 31299966 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

CHUBX 2016/31

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id