Comprehensive Connected Cancer Care (C4): Intervention Evaluation

Timothy Mullett300 enrolled

Overview

The C4 program aims to provide a multi-level intervention program (Patient Level, Healthcare Team and Healthcare System Level) that improves the coordination of care with supportive/ancillary care providers and community services through the use of patient navigation and a digital needs assessment and a closed-loop referral system and improves patient-centered communication and engagement in care through skills training for the healthcare team and provision of culturally appropriate patient educational tools and resources. The program components incorporate three areas that are critical to improving patient-centered care: coordination of care, patient-centered communication and engagement, and psychosocial care and other supportive services.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

300

Conditions

Cancer Health Care Utilization

Interventions

C4 program aims to provide a multi-level intervention program (Patient Level, Healthcare Team and Healthcare System Level) that improves the coordination of care with supportive/ancillary care providers and community services through the use of patient navigation and a digital needs assessment and a closed-loop referral system and improves patient-centered communication and engagement in care through skills training for the healthcare team and provision of culturally appropriate patient educational tools and resources. The program components incorporate three areas that are critical to improving patient-centered care: coordination of care, patient-centered communication and engagement, and psychosocial care and other supportive services.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Patients with newly diagnosed or recurrent cancer who have not initiated treatment of any kind, including surgery, medical management, and/or radiation * Patients with one reported social determinants of health (SDOH) need OR patients at high-risk for SDOH needs based on demographic information (racial \& ethnic minorities, medicaid/uninsured populations). * Willingness to provide informed consent to participate Exclusion Criteria: * Not able to understand and communicate in English * Unable and/or unwilling to access the internet on a phone, tablet, or computer

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Change in Health Related Quality of Life (FACT-G7)

The FACT-G7 is a 7-item version of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G), a patient-reported outcome measure used to assess health-related quality of life in patients undergoing cancer therapy. The survey assesses the impacts of cancer therapy in four domains: physical, social/family, emotional, and functional. Higher scores represent higher quality of life.

Time frame: baseline (enrollment) and 4 months

Secondary Outcomes

Overall Survival

1 year survival after diagnosis (12 months)

Time frame: 12 months