An observational study in Cancer, sponsored by Maastricht Radiation Oncology. Completed at 1 site in Netherlands. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2015-04-10.
Sponsored by Maastricht Radiation Oncology · Observational
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.
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.
Maastricht Radiation Oncology is the lead sponsor of 104 studies on the registry; 9 are open to participants now.
Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.
All patients treated with radiotherapy
Patients receiving radiotherapy
Exclusion Criteria:
Patients not receiving radiotherapy
All patients receiving radiotherapy
referral and first day of radiotherapy
Waiting time between referral and first day of radiotherapy
Time frame: 3 months
Diagnosis and first day of radiotherapy
Waiting time between diagnosis and first day of radiotherapy
Time frame: 3 months
multi-disciplinary board and first day of radiotherapy
Waiting time between multi-disciplinary board and first day of radiotherapy
Time frame: 3 months
intake and first day of radiotherapy
Waiting time between intake and first day of radiotherapy
Time frame: 3 months
simulation and first day of radiotherapy
Waiting time between simulation and first day of radiotherapy
Time frame: 3 months
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