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Trial Title:
Safer Personalised Cancer Treatment Digital Follow-up
NCT ID:
NCT06476158
Condition:
Patient Reported Outcome Measure
Conditions: Keywords:
Adverse events
Patient reported outcome
Digital follow-up
Immunotherapy
Routine cancer care
Study type:
Interventional
Study phase:
N/A
Overall status:
Recruiting
Study design:
Allocation:
Non-Randomized
Intervention model:
Parallel Assignment
Intervention model description:
A retrospective quantitative approach will be used to develop and validate new technology
and methods since there is a need to control and check the outcomes, before we use an
ambi-directional cohort study design to see how the new technology and methods perform in
clinical practice on real world data.
Primary purpose:
Health Services Research
Masking:
None (Open Label)
Intervention:
Intervention type:
Device
Intervention name:
Kaiku Health
Description:
Digital follow-up with Kaiku Health as medical device
Arm group label:
Digital follow-up with e-PROs
Summary:
The goal of this clinical trial is to investigate patient harm/ adverse events, overall
survival and health related quality of life under treatment with immunotherapy medication
in cancer patients when they are followed up by a personalized digital program where the
patients report symptoms directly to health care personnel.
The main questions the clinical trial aims to answer are:
- How often and how severe are immunotherapy related adverse events/ side effects when
patients are followed up by a digital personalized patient-reporting system compared
to standard follow-up?
- How are life quality and survival affected for patients followed up by a digital
personalized patient-reporting system compared to follow-up standard follow-up??
Participants under immunotherapy cancer treatment will be followed up by a digital
patient reporting program in one group, and compared to a group of cancer patients
receiving the same treatment, but with standard follow-up without a digital program in
another group. Researchers will compare the two groups to see if there any differences in
how many patients who develop immunotherapy related patient harm and how long the
patients live.
Detailed description:
Cancer patients experience more frequently patient harm than other patients, mostly from
systemic anticancer treatment. To reduce avoidable patient harm from modern cancer
treatment such as immunotherapy and targeted therapies, precise and clinically relevant
measurements are needed.
The study aims through three different sub-studies/ work pacages (WP) to develop
electronic methods for measuring automatically injuries in cancer patients, and
investigate if electronic patient follow-up (ePRO) can prevent injuries, affect quality
of life and survival in patients receiving immunotherapy cancer treatment.
Research has shown that the recommended method for measuring patient harm and medication
related adverse events is not specific or sensitive enough to detect cancer-related
patient harm. In recent years, three patient harm measurement tools for cancer have been
validated based on a manual retrospective review of the patient record. Based on existing
technology and research, in WP1 the aim is to develop and validate a fully automatic
patient harm measurement tool for retrospective detection of harm in cancer patients
receiving immunotherapy. The development of the technological solution is done by
Datavarehuset Helse Nord and SAS Institute in an already existing solution (Nordic
Clinical Analytics Framework - NCAF) which is used daily in all health trusts in Helse
Nord, Northern Norway.
In order to prevent avoidable patient harm and adverse events, it is important to involve
the patient in their own treatment. Research on follow-up with ePRO revealed more side
effects, increased quality of life and overall survival in cancer patients.
In WP2, the technology developed in WP1 is used to prospectively examine whether
follow-up with ePRO compared to standard follow-up results in less adverse events. In
WP3, quality of life and survival are investigated with ePRO follow-up compared to
standard follow-up. WP1 is a retrospective diagnostic study. WP2 and 3 are clinical
cohort studies where a prospective intervention group of cancer patients are followed
with ePRO during immunotherapy treatment and compared with a retrospective group of
cancer patients followed with standard clinical follow-up. WP2 investigates rates,
severity and types of immunotherapy related adverse events in patients monitored with
ePRO compared to standard follow-up. WP3 investigates quality of life in the ePRO cohort,
and overall survival in patients monitored to standard follow-up.
When the study is completed in 2027, the intention is to have developed and validated an
automatic measurement tool for the detection of cancer-related injuries for general use
nationally and internationally, and new knowledge about how and if digital follow-up with
ePRO can affect patient harm and adverse events, quality of life and survival.
The study contributes to new knowledge about measurement of patient injuries and digital
follow-up of cancer patients during active treatment with immunotherapy as a new standard
of care in our region.
Adverse events are an additional burden for seriously ill cancer patients. By measuring
adverse events that occur in cancer patients, we recognize that these events happen and
is a part of oncology that need to be taken to account for each individual patient.
Knowledge of the occurrence of adverse events in each individual department will be able
to say something about status in each department, so measures can be taken at a system
level to improve patient safety and the quality of the health service.
The use of personalized ePRO gives the patient the opportunity to participate actively in
the course of their illness, regardless of where and who the patient is. Increased
involvement of the patient inthe patient journey has shown to provide increased
empowerment, safety, better quality of life and possible increase survival in other
studies. Follow-up with ePRO makes it easier for healthcare personnel to detect early
signs of potential injuries so that measures can be initiated faster to mitigate
potential harm.
Criteria for eligibility:
Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Above 18 years of age
- Cancer diagnosis as primary or secondary diagnosis according to the ICD-10
classification
- Receiving immunotherapy as systemic anticancer treatment reported with ATC codes for
medications.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Hematological cancer
- Gynecological cancer
Gender:
All
Minimum age:
18 Years
Maximum age:
N/A
Healthy volunteers:
No
Locations:
Facility:
Name:
Nordlandssykehuset HF
Address:
City:
Bodø
Zip:
8092
Country:
Norway
Status:
Recruiting
Contact:
Last name:
Ellinor Haukland, MD, PhD
Phone:
+4792267328
Email:
ellinor.haukland@nlsh.no
Contact backup:
Last name:
Siv Gyda Aanes, MD
Phone:
+4790944580
Email:
siv.gyda.aanes@nlsh.no
Start date:
June 1, 2024
Completion date:
December 31, 2027
Lead sponsor:
Agency:
Nordlandssykehuset HF
Agency class:
Other
Collaborator:
Agency:
University of Tromso
Agency class:
Other
Collaborator:
Agency:
Helgelandssykehuset HF
Agency class:
Other
Collaborator:
Agency:
University Hospital of North Norway
Agency class:
Other
Source:
Nordlandssykehuset HF
Record processing date:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on November 12, 2024
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov page:
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT06476158