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NCT Number: NCT02070497

Effectiveness of Nursing Case Management for Lung Cancer Patients

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

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Key information

Conditions

Lung Cancer Lung Diseases Lung Neoplasms Neoplasms Neoplasms by Site Respiratory Tract Diseases Respiratory Tract Neoplasms Thoracic Neoplasms

Age range

20 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 2

Primary location

National Taiwan University Hospital Research Ethics Committee

Taipei, 10002, Taiwan

About this study

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.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • patients with lung cancer

Exclusion criteria

  • younger than 20 years old

Treatment and study plan

Case management

Other

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

Other names: nursing case management

Primary outcomes

  1. chart review

    Time frame: One year

    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.

Secondary outcomes

  1. patients' satisfaction questionnaire

    Time frame: 1 day

  2. staffs' satisfaction questionnaire

    Time frame: 1 day

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

National Taiwan University Hospital

Other

Registry information

Official study title

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

Important dates

Study start
2010
Primary completion
2011
Study completion
2011
First posted
Feb 25, 2014
Registry last updated
Feb 25, 2014

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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