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Enhancing the Patient Journey to Clinical Trial Enrolment With Navigation to Optimize Accrual

ConditionCancer
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
AgeNot listed
SponsorWindsor Regional Hospital

About this trial

Less than 5% of patient enter clinical trials, despite the fact that many patients facing cancer are recommended to seek out clinical trials. One challenge of finding a clinical trial, is the lack of clinical trials at the patient's home cancer centre. The Clinical Trials Navigator (CTN) program was established to help patients, their families and heath care providers navigate the clinical trials systems across Canada in order to identify meaningful clinical trials for patients and help them enter those trials.

The CTN program was piloted in Windsor, Ontario and increased clinical trials accrual for this population by 8%. This study plans to roll out to twenty centres across Canada, mimicing the process. This implementation of the CTN program will be tested by adding centres in a sequential fashion until all centres are added over the 12 month period.

The objectives are improved patient enrollment which will be measured by embedded CTNs in each cancer centre, and reporting to the central site.

Pre- and post-implementation structured interviews with administrators, physicians, patients and allied health care professionals will be used to assess uptake of the CTN program in each centre and reveal potential barriers to successful implementation of a nation-wide CTN program.

The ability of the current CTN program to upscale to twenty centres will be measured by turn-around times of patient reports and through the structured interviews.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Limited to Thunder Bay and Winnipeg health care professionals and patients;

Disqualifiers

People outside of these two expansion sites

Trial design

Design model

Sequential

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Educational program

    Behavioral

    Unique educational program that educates health care professionals on the unique advantages of the Clinical Trials Navigator program. This program is reserved for those centres entering the study. An interactive component of the study is central.

Treatment groups

300 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: Cohort 1: Patients: Pre and post interventionActive comparator 1 intervention
Group B: Cohort 3: Physicians and Health Care ProfessionalsActive comparator 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

At least a 10% increase in the number of patients from Thunder Bay and Winnipeg referred to clinical trials outside of the patient's home cancer treatment site.

Following the intervention, increased awareness of the program will increase the numbers of cancer patients referred to clinical trials at sites outside of the treating site.

Time frame
12 months
2

At least a 5% increase in the number of patients from Thunder Bay and Winnipeg enrolled onto clinical trials outside of the patient's home cancer treatment site.

Following the intervention, increased awareness of the program will increase the numbers of cancer patients enrolled onto clinical trials at sites outside of the treating site.

Time frame
12 months

Secondary outcomes

1

Health Care Professional Interviews

Physicians and health care professionals will be interviewed using the CFIR guidelines to obtain potential barriers and opportunities for optimization of the CTN program.

Time frame
12 months

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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Windsor Regional Hospital

Lead sponsor

Source ClinicalTrials.gov
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