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

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

There Is No Place Like Home- A Pragmatic Effectiveness Trial of Technology-Enhanced Outpatient Symptom Management to Reduce Acute Care Visits Due to Chemotherapy-Related Adverse Events

This clinical trial studies if enhanced outpatient symptom management with telemedicine and remote monitoring can help reduce acute care visit due to chemotherapy-related adverse events. Receiving telemedicine and remote monitoring may help patients have better outcomes (such as fewer avoidable emergency room visits and hospitalizations, better quality of life, fewer symptoms, and fewer treatment delays) than patients who receive usual care.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: I. Determine the efficacy of remote patient monitoring (RPM) on improving clinical outcomes. SECONDARY OBJECTIVE: I. Evaluate the following patient-centered outcomes: treatment delays, health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL), patient activation, and family caregiver-experience. OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 arms. ARM I: Patients receive standard of care consisting of oncology care provided via telemedicine. ARM II: Patients receive standard of care consisting of oncology care provided via telemedicine. Patients also undergo remote monitoring.

Clinical Stage IV Esophageal Adenocarcinoma AJCC v8, Clinical Stage IV Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma AJCC v8, Clinical Stage IV Gastric Cancer AJCC v8, Clinical Stage IVA Esophageal Adenocarcinoma AJCC v8, Clinical Stage IVA Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma AJCC v8, Clinical Stage IVA Gastric Cancer AJCC v8, Clinical Stage IVB Esophageal Adenocarcinoma AJCC v8, Clinical Stage IVB Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma AJCC v8, Clinical Stage IVB Gastric Cancer AJCC v8, Metastatic Colon Carcinoma, Metastatic Esophageal Carcinoma, Metastatic Gastric Carcinoma, Metastatic Liver Carcinoma, Metastatic Malignant Digestive System Neoplasm, Metastatic Malignant Small Intestinal Neoplasm, Metastatic Malignant Thoracic Neoplasm, Metastatic Pancreatic Carcinoma, Metastatic Rectal Carcinoma, Pathologic Stage IV Esophageal Adenocarcinoma AJCC v8, Pathologic Stage IV Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma AJCC v8, Pathologic Stage IV Gastric Cancer AJCC v8, Pathologic Stage IVA Esophageal Adenocarcinoma AJCC v8, Pathologic Stage IVA Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma AJCC v8, Pathologic Stage IVB Esophageal Adenocarcinoma AJCC v8, Pathologic Stage IVB Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma AJCC v8, Postneoadjuvant Therapy Stage IV Esophageal Adenocarcinoma AJCC v8, Postneoadjuvant Therapy Stage IV Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma AJCC v8, Postneoadjuvant Therapy Stage IV Gastric Cancer AJCC v8, Postneoadjuvant Therapy Stage IVA Esophageal Adenocarcinoma AJCC v8, Postneoadjuvant Therapy Stage IVA Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma AJCC v8, Postneoadjuvant Therapy Stage IVB Esophageal Adenocarcinoma AJCC v8, Postneoadjuvant Therapy Stage IVB Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma AJCC v8, Stage IV Colon Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IV Hepatocellular Carcinoma AJCC v8, Stage IV Pancreatic Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IV Rectal Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IV Small Intestinal, Esophageal, Colorectal, Mesenteric, and Peritoneal Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor AJCC v8, Stage IVA Colon Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IVA Hepatocellular Carcinoma AJCC v8, Stage IVA Rectal Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IVB Colon Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IVB Hepatocellular Carcinoma AJCC v8, Stage IVB Rectal Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IVC Colon Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IVC Rectal Cancer AJCC v8

Patients receive standard of care consisting of oncology care provided via telemedicine. Patients also undergo remote monitoring.

Defined as the proportion of unique oncology patients with emergency room visits or hospital admission over a 3-month period.

HRQOL will be assessed using the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Profile-29 version 2.1.

Patient engagement will be evaluated with the 13-item Patient Activation Measure (PAM), which assesses knowledge, skill, and self-efficacy for self-management of health

Inclusion Criteria: Adults (>= 18 years) English- fluent with metastatic thoracic and gastrointestinal (esophagus, stomach, liver, pancreas, small bowel, colon, and rectum) who are scheduled to initiate outpatient chemotherapy (cycle 1, dose 1) at M D Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) (Texas Medical Center location) Their adult (>= 18 years) patient-identified or self-identified primary caregivers Patients may participate if they do not have a caregiver, or if their caregiver declines participation; however, caregivers may participate only if the patient consents Exclusion Criteria: Patients receiving investigational drug treatments or concurrently enrolled in a phase 1 clinical trial will be excluded due to the associated structured reporting and regulatory requirements Patients with a requirement for inpatient infusion (i.e. CAR-T cell therapy), living in institutional settings (i.e. prison), with a history of dementia, physical disability or neurological deficits that prohibit ability to report symptom burden will also be excluded