An interventional study of medical chart review and questionnaire administration in Fatigue, Nausea and Vomiting and Pain, sponsored by City of Hope Medical Center. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2010-10-01.
Sponsored by City of Hope Medical Center · Not applicable, Interventional, and Health services research
RATIONALE: Meeting with a nurse to assess symptoms and quality of life may be more effective than standard care in treating patients with pancreatic cancer.
PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying nurse-provided care to see how well it works compared with standard care in treating patients with pancreatic cancer.
OBJECTIVES:
OUTLINE: Patients are sequentially enrolled to 1 of 2 groups. Group 1 is enrolled during months 4-21 and group 2 during months 25-54.
In both groups, questionnaires include the FACT-Hep, Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale, Psychological Distress Thermometer, Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment, and Patient Satisfaction with Intervention. Clinicians also complete questionnaires. Patients' medical charts are also reviewed.
3,235 studies on the registry are indexed under Pancreatic Neoplasms; 899 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 125 is above the median of 46 across 2,424 interventional studies indexed under Pancreatic Neoplasms.
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DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
Admitted to City of Hope National Medical Center
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
Quality of life, psychological distress, symptom relief, geriatric assessment outcome, and resource use at 3 months
Long-term impact at 6 months
This study is completed, as verified in Sep 2010. You cannot join it, but the record below documents what was studied.
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