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Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) for Managing Symptoms of Patients Following Thoracic Surgery

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT00505024

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Official title

A Randomized Clinical Trial of the Efficacy of an Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) for Managing Symptoms of Patients Following Thoracic Surgery

Brief summary

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To test the effectiveness of the interactive voice response telephone system with a triage/feedback component that incorporates timely symptom assessment, feedback to physicians, critical treatment guidelines for managing selected symptoms (distress, sleep disturbance, shortness of breath, constipation, and pain) in a cohort of cancer patients during the first month post-thoracic surgery. This interactive voice response system (IVR) will be evaluated in a randomized clinical trial with an intervention group (IVR symptom assessment with triage) and a control group (IVR symptom assessment only). We hypotheses that: 1. Patients in the MDASI-IVR plus triage group will have less symptom burden (less symptom severity, less symptom related interference, and better satisfaction of symptom control, better physical and emotional well-being) over the month of the trial compared to the control group. 2. Patients in the MDASI-IVR plus triage group will have more frequent documentation of symptom management in line with treatment guidelines compared to the control group.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT00505024
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Enrollment
100 participants

Conditions and interventions

Interventions

Behavioral · Other

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, 2006
Primary completion
May 31, 2010
Completion
May 31, 2010
Last update posted
Jul 29, 2012

2006 – 2010

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston Texas 77030

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