Clinical trial · Interventional
TeamTalk: Improving Inter-professional Communication During Cancer Treatment
TeamTalk: Strategies to Improve Communication Structure and Quality in Low-resource Childhood Cancer Hospitals
NCT07083674CI-TRIAL-00100367not yet recruitingN/AClinicalTrials.gov clinicaltrialsProvenance
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
This study focuses on improving interprofessional communication during cancer treatment, through an individual and hospital system intervention, to improve provider outcomes, patient care, and, ultimately, survival for children with cancer in low-resource settings.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatric Cancer | Childhood Malignant Neoplasm | ALIAS | 0.90 |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-level communication intervention | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Intervention Group
- description
- This study includes an intervention development phase (Aim 2) during which the intervention content and delivery mechanisms will be finalized. We will implement the multilevel intervention developed in Aim 2. We anticipate this will consist of one instance of intervention at each hospital and we will develop a full intervention manual following Aim 2. Details regarding the intervention will be updated prior to participant enrollment in the trial.
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: Multi-level communication intervention
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- Waitlist Control Group
- description
- The wait list control is a group that does not receive an intervention during the study period, serving as an untreated comparison during the study, although they later receive the intervention. This intervention will be delivered after the completion of the last data collection instance.
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Hospitals identified as being in lowest quartile of communication quality, as defined by prior cross-sectional CritCom analysis and measured as the overall CritCom score. * All Global Alliance hospitals providing childhood cancer care will be eligible to participate. * Individual participants will be included if they care for hospitalized children with cancer at risk of deterioration. Exclusion Criteria: * None
References
Publications (2)
- BACKGROUNDDEVELOPMENT OF A QUANTITATIVE MEASURE (CRITCOM) TO ASSESS THE QUALITY OF INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION AROUND PATIENT DETERIORATION IN VARIABLY RESOURCED HOSPITALS
- DERIVEDAgulnik A, Graetz DE, Carothers BJ, Rivera J, Blakeney EA, Hayes S, Chaitan VL, Cabassa L, Goss CW, Luke DA, Malone S. Strategies to improve healthcare team communication structure and quality in resource-variable childhood cancer hospitals (TeamTalk): a study protocol. Implement Sci Commun. 2025 Nov 17;6(1):124. doi: 10.1186/s43058-025-00811-z. PMID 41250257