Actively Recruiting
The COMPASSION Study
Led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · Updated on 2025-10-09
200
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
130 weeks
Total Duration
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
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.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
The COMPASSION Study
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- 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 within 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
You will not qualify if you...
- Unable to provide verbal consent
- Hospice care planned outside of a home setting (participants starting in home hospice but transitioning to inpatient hospice are allowed)
- Hospice setting outside of Massachusetts
- Individuals under the age of 18
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
C
Claire Smith, MD
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Model
SEQUENTIAL
Primary Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Number of Arms
2
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