Clinical trial · Interventional
Ride to Care - Quality of Life With Transportation for RT
Ride to Care - A Pilot Study to Investigate the Clinical and Quality of Life Benefit of Eliminating Transportation Barriers for Disadvantaged Cancer Patients Undergoing Ambulatory Palliative Radiotherapy
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Why stopped (as posted): Low Accrual
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
This trial studies how well Uber health intervention works in eliminating transportation barriers for disadvantaged patients with cancer that has spread to nearby tissue, lymph nodes, or other places in the body, undergoing ambulatory palliative radiotherapy. Uber health intervention provides free transportation to disadvantaged patients and may reduce the amount of missed radiotherapy appointments, patient anxiety, and the amount of unplanned emergency department visits, as well as improve quality of life.
Conditions
Conditions (2)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Locally Advanced Malignant Neoplasm | Malignant Neoplasm | CURATED_BROADER | 0.78 |
| Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm | Malignant Neoplasm | CURATED_BROADER | 0.78 |
Interventions
Interventions (3)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quality-of-Life Assessment | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
| Questionnaire Administration | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
| Supportive Care | Procedure | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (1)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Heath services research (Uber rides)
- description
- Patients receive Uber rides to and from scheduled radiotherapy appointments for up to 6 months.
- interventionNames
- Other: Quality-of-Life Assessment
- Other: Questionnaire Administration
- Procedure: Supportive Care
Primary outcomes (2)
- measure
- Rate of unplanned emergency department (ED) visits
- timeFrame
- Up to 6 months
- description
- For each enrolled patient, any unplanned ED visit over the six months from consultation/enrollment will be documented as an event.
- measure
- Rate of unplanned hospital admissions
- timeFrame
- Up to 6 months
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Written informed consent (and assent when applicable) obtained from patient or patients's legal representative and ability for patient to comply with the requirements of the study * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0-2 * Histologically confirmed locally advanced or metastatic cancer * Patients who have received prior courses of radiotherapy are eligible * If patient answers yes to \>= 1/4 of the questions below: * In the last six months, have you ever delayed seeing a doctor or getting care? * Do you anticipate having a hard time coming to University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) for radiation therapy due to transportation challenges? * Does lack of money for transportation expenses (parking, taxi, bus) make it difficult for you to get care quickly for medical problems? * Does arranging for transportation (driving yourself, getting neighbor or family to drive you) for your cancer treatments make you anxious or worried?" Exclusion Criteria: * Pregnant, breastfeeding, or unwilling to practice birth control during participation in the study * Presence of a condition or abnormality that in the opinion of the Investigator would compromise the safety of the patient or the quality of the data * Patients who are living at a facility such as a nursing home or skilled nursing facility * Patients who do not live within a 30-mile radius of one of the radiation oncology sites at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) * Patients who are currently receiving or expected to be receive UCSF affiliated transportation services prior to enrollment onto the study
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