This clinical trial studies if enhanced outpatient symptom management with telemedicine and remote monitoring can help reduce acute care visit due to chemotherapy-related adverse events. Receiving telemedicine and remote monitoring may help patients have better outcomes (such as fewer avoidable emergency room visits and hospitalizations, better quality of life, fewer symptoms, and fewer treatment delays) than patients who receive usual care.
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: I. Determine the efficacy of remote patient monitoring (RPM) on improving clinical outcomes. SECONDARY OBJECTIVE: I. Evaluate the following patient-centered outcomes: treatment delays, health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL), patient activation, and family caregiver-experience. OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 arms. ARM I: Patients receive standard of care consisting of oncology care provided via telemedicine. ARM II: Patients receive standard of care consisting of oncology care provided via telemedicine. Patients also undergo remote monitoring.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
750
Receive standard of care telemedicine
Undergo remote monitoring
Ancillary studies
M D Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, United States
Rate of acute care visits
Defined as the proportion of unique oncology patients with emergency room visits or hospital admission over a 3-month period.
Time frame: Up to 3 months
Change in health-related quality of life (HRQOL)
HRQOL will be assessed using the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Profile-29 version 2.1.
Time frame: Baseline to 6 months
Change in patient engagement
Patient engagement will be evaluated with the 13-item Patient Activation Measure (PAM), which assesses knowledge, skill, and self-efficacy for self-management of health
Time frame: Baseline to 6 months
Change in symptom management
Daily symptoms will be measured using the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 5.
Time frame: Baseline to 6 months
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