Computer-Based Survey and Communication Aid in Improving Physician-Patient Communication and Treatment Decision Making in Patients With Metastatic Cancer
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Official title
Facilitating Decision Making in Advanced Cancer Patients
Brief summary
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RATIONALE: A computer-based survey and communication aid may help physicians and patients to communicate better and help make treatment decisions easier. PURPOSE: This phase III randomized clinical trial is studying how well giving a computer-based survey together with a communication aid works compared to a computer-based survey alone in improving physician-patient communication and treatment decision making in patients with metastatic cancer.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00244868
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 3
- Enrollment
- 720 participants
Conditions and interventions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Jun 30, 2003
- Primary completion
- Mar 31, 2007
- Completion
- Not listed
- Last update posted
- Jan 28, 2013
Started 2003
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 3
- U.S. states
- 3
- U.S. cities
- 3
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University | Chicago | Illinois | 60611-3013 | — |
| Fox Chase Cancer Center - Philadelphia | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 19111-2497 | — |
| MBCCOP - Meharry Medical College - Nashville | Nashville | Tennessee | 37208-3599 | — |
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