Quality of Care in Relationship to Aborted Cancer Surgery
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An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: validation.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Cancer, Gastrointestinal Cancer. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Sweden
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Developing Patient-centered Interventions to Improve the Quality of Care in Relationship to Aborted Cancer Surgery
Overview
Surgery is often a central curative treatment for gastrointestinal tumors. Surgical treatment of diagnosed cancer tumors is decided after a comprehensive assessment of the patient's physical status, radiological assessments and after careful evaluation at the multidisciplinary conference. Despite the careful preoperative assessment of patients for curative surgery, the planned operation may unexpectedly need to be canceled. Of the patients who were planned for curative resection for pancreatic cancer in 2021 in Sweden, 90% received the intended surgery, and 10% of planned surgery was canceled. The reason for this was disseminated cancer or locally advanced disease in which radical resection is considered impossible to carry out. A systematic review of knowledge reveals a significant lack of evidence regarding patient-centered research and aborted cancer surgery. The studies in the project have different study designs and methods, and include focus group interviews with staff, translation and validation of a questionnaire to measure care needs, estimation of supportive care needs and patient experiences. An improved understanding and knowledge of patients' preferences and needs is needed to design interventions that can improve health-related quality of life. This project is dedicated to studying patients undergoing aborted cancer surgery, with the aim of improving the quality of care and meeting patients' care needs.
Detailed description
The overall objective of this research project is to:
* describe the patients experiences and assess supportive care needs following aborted cancer gastrointestinal surgery * increase knowledge of the healthcare professionals' experiences of aborted cancer surgery from a multi-professional and continuum of cancer care perspective * increase our clinical knowledge of patient preferences and healthcare professionals' perspective to develop tailored patient-centered interventions with the goal to improve quality of cancer care
Interventions
- Other validation
Translation and validation design
Primary outcome measures
- supportive care needs, questonnarie [Time frame: March 2023 - March 2024]
- Rate of supportive care needs in cancer [Time frame: March 2023 - March 2024]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- >18 years
- cancer patients with different gastrointestinal cancer diagnosis
Exclusion criteria
\- not able to answer the questionnarie SCNS-SF34 in Swedish.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
Study locations
Sweden · 2 centers
- Jenny Drott — Linköping
- Department of Surgery — Linköping
Identifiers
NCT: NCT05808712 · ACS