Enhanced Outpatient Symptom Management to Reduce Acute Care Visits Due to Chemotherapy-Related Adverse Events

Korábbi kezelés

• Participants who are receiving investigational new drug treatments or concurrently enrolled in a phase 1 clinical trial will be excluded due to the associated structured reporting and regulatory requirements.

Más betegség

• Participants with a requirement for inpatient infusion (i.e. CAR-T cell therapy), living in institutional settings (i.e. prison, nursing homes), with a history of dementia, physical disability or neurological deficits that prohibit ability to report symptom burden will also be excluded.

• Adults (≥ 18 years)
• English- and Spanish-fluent participants with thoracic and/or gastrointestinal cancers who are scheduled to initiate or continue outpatient chemotherapy at either MDACC (Texas Medical Center campus and any Houston-area location) or MDACC oncology clinic at Lyndon B Johnson (LBJ) hospital
• Their adult (≥18 years) patient-identified or self-identified primary caregivers (MDACC only)
• Participants on combination chemotherapy and immunotherapy or combination chemotherapy and biologic will also be eligible for inclusion.
• Participants may participate if they do not have a caregiver, or if their caregiver declines participation; however, caregivers of MDACC participants may participate only if the participant consents.