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The COMPASSION Study

The COMPASSION Study: Applying Telehealth to Innovate and Strengthen Connections for Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer Receiving Hospice Care


Sponsor

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Enrollment

200 participants

Start Date

Sep 1, 2024

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Conditions

Summary

The aim of this research study is to better understand the in-home hospice experience for participants, caregivers, hospice nurses, and oncology providers by conducting telehealth check-ins between participants and caregivers and oncology care teams.


Eligibility

Min Age: 18 Years

Inclusion Criteria7

  • Patient of any gender with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer
  • Eligible for in-home hospice services and referred by DFCI clinical team to in-home hospice \</= 1 week before enrollment
  • Ability to conduct video or phone check-ins, even if assistance required.
  • Able to provide verbal consent with a willingness to take a survey at 4-6 weeks, if medically able
  • Hospice setting is within Massachusetts
  • Non-English language allowed but interpreter services must be present at each meeting and will be coordinated by scheduling team
  • Willingness to provide a caregiver/loved one's contact information for survey contact at 4 weeks after enrollment

Exclusion Criteria4

  • Unable to provide verbal consent
  • Hospice care planned outside of a home setting (note: if participants start out in a home hospice setting but later transition their hospice care to an inpatient setting, enrollment is allowed as long as they started in a home setting)
  • Hospice setting outside of Massachusetts
  • Individuals who are under the age of 18, as this is not a project focused on pediatric patients.

Interventions

OTHERTelehealth Hospice Visits

Telehealth check-in appointments with oncology care team, MD, PA, NP, or hospice nurse, via HIPAA compliant telehealth platform, Zoom, or by phone call.


Locations(1)

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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