Education and Training
Lay Health Worker Expanded Intervention in Community Oncology Practices
Undertreated patient symptoms and resulting acute care use require approaches that improve symptom-burden. Previously a lay health worker (LHW)-led symptom screening intervention was developed for patients with cancer. In pilot work, the intervention was associated with improvements in patient symptom burden and reductions in healthcare use and costs of care at the end of life. This intervention will be expanded across several clinics to evaluate the impact of the LHW intervention on with cancer and the LHW will be trained to refer patients to palliative care. This randomized intervention will evaluate the effect on healthcare use, total costs, palliative care and hospice referral.
Stanford is currently not accepting patients for this trial.
Stanford Investigator(s):
Intervention(s):
- behavioral: Program participants
- other: Usual Care
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Newly diagnosed or relapsed cancer diagnosis.
- 75 years or older with an odd medical record #
- Diagnosis of relapse or progressive disease (any cancer diagnosis) as identified by
imaging or biopsy and confirmed by physician.
- Must have capacity to verbally consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Inability to consent to the study due to lack of capacity as documented by the
referring physician.
Ages Eligible for Study
75 Years - 100 Years
Genders Eligible for Study
All
Not currently accepting new patients for this trial
Contact Information
Stanford University
School of Medicine
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford,
CA
94305
Manali I Patel, MD MPH MS
650-723-4000
Not Recruiting