Please select the arm or intervention descriptions that belong to the clinical trial below.
Title: Early Specialized Palliative Care Team Intervention for Patients With Metastatic Cancer: A Cluster Randomized Trial
Brief Summary: Patients with advanced cancer often have numerous physical and psychological symptoms, which can negatively affect their quality of life. A palliative care team of different health care professionals (including doctors, nurses, social workers and therapists) specializes in treating these symptoms and offers support for patients and their families. However, palliative care teams are currently involved only in the last two months of a patient's life or not at all.

The main purpose of this study is to determine whether, compared to conventional cancer care, early involvement by a specialized symptom control and palliative care team in patients with advanced cancer will be associated with: better quality of life, greater patient and caregiver satisfaction with care, better symptom control, improved communication with healthcare providers and improved caregiver quality of life.


Options:
A: Arm Label: Early palliative care consultation; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Other: Early palliative care consultation | Arm Label: Care as usual; Type: OTHER; Interventions: Other: Care as usual | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Early palliative care consultation; Assigned to Arm(s): Early palliative care consultation | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Care as usual; Assigned to Arm(s): Care as usual
B: Arm Label: early palliative care; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Interventional palliative care | Arm Label: Standard care; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: Standard oncologic care | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Interventional palliative care; Assigned to Arm(s): early palliative care | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Standard oncologic care; Assigned to Arm(s): Standard care
C: Arm Label: Phase 1 Usual care; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Other: medical chart review, Other: questionnaire administration, Procedure: end-of-life treatment/management, Procedure: psychosocial assessment and care, Procedure: quality-of-life assessment | Arm Label: Phase 2 Intervention; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Other: educational intervention, Other: medical chart review, Other: questionnaire administration, Procedure: end-of-life treatment/management, Procedure: psychosocial assessment and care, Procedure: quality-of-life assessment | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: educational intervention; Assigned to Arm(s): Phase 2 Intervention | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: medical chart review; Assigned to Arm(s): Phase 1 Usual care, Phase 2 Intervention | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: questionnaire administration; Assigned to Arm(s): Phase 1 Usual care, Phase 2 Intervention | Intervention Type: PROCEDURE; Name: end-of-life treatment/management; Assigned to Arm(s): Phase 1 Usual care, Phase 2 Intervention | Intervention Type: PROCEDURE; Name: psychosocial assessment and care; Assigned to Arm(s): Phase 1 Usual care, Phase 2 Intervention | Intervention Type: PROCEDURE; Name: quality-of-life assessment; Assigned to Arm(s): Phase 1 Usual care, Phase 2 Intervention
D: Arm Label: Early Palliative Care Referral; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: Early Palliative Care Referral | Arm Label: Conventional Cancer Care; Type: PLACEBO_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: Early Palliative Care Referral | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Early Palliative Care Referral; Assigned to Arm(s): Conventional Cancer Care, Early Palliative Care Referral

Answer: D