Description Module
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Description Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 10:09 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 10:09 PM
NCT ID:
NCT00141635
Brief Summary:
Implementation and Evaluation of Implementation of Quality of Life Diagnostics and Therapy in Individual Patients with Breast Cancer. A prospective study including 170 patients, 5 clinics and 38 general practitioners as coordinating doctors for quality of life therapies. Correlational study including several comparisons such as patients and their doctors.
Detailed Description:
Improving cancer patients' quality of life (QL) requires that QL-diagnostics, the availability of QL-enhancing treatment options and treatment decisions are being integrated into a clinical path. This description presents the development and implementation of such a clinical path in the Tumorcenter Regensburg.
The acting persons and institutions in this clinical path are the breast cancer patients, the hospitals, the family doctors or gynaecologists, and a QL-study team. Starting point is the QL-assessment either in the hospital or in doctors' practice (EORTC QLQ-C30 plus BR-23). The caring physician documents the patients' health status. Based on these two pieces of information, the QL-study team writes up a medical/QL-opinion plus therapy recommendation. This report is sent to the caring physician. The effectiveness of the therapy recommendation is assessed in the following QL-assessment. This clinical path is implemented via three interrelated methods of implementation: local opinion leaders, outreach visits, and quality circle.
A total of 38 physicians were made familiar with QL-diagnostics through outreach visits, and 12 opinion leaders were identified and convinced to support this project. The quality circle provided regular CME meetings on QL-enhancing therapy options (pain control, psychotherapy, physiotherapy, nutrition, social rehabilitation). A total of 170 QL-reports were sent to physicians. All 38 doctors found the QL-profiles comprehensible and the therapy recommendations clinically relevant. The most common QL-problems were emotional functioning, fatigue, and arm/shoulder problems.
QL-diagnostics is a new way to individualise and to rationalise patient care. It transforms the QL-concept into a decision-relevant, integral part of a clinical path that aims to provide high quality patient care.
Study:
NCT00141635
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT00141635