U.S., March 4 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07446660) titled 'STEP2 vs. Routine Early Palliative Care: Randomized Noninferiority Trial' on Feb. 25.
Brief Summary: Palliative care aims to improve quality of life for people with advanced illness, and early palliative care (EPC) has been shown to benefit patients with late-stage cancer. However, specialist teams do not have the capacity to see all patients; on the other hand, many who would benefit are not referred. To address this, our research team created STEP2, a system that combines online symptom screening with targeted palliative referrals. Eligible patients with advanced cancer are randomly assigned to routine EPC-where all receive a refe...