Comparison · NCT03375489-deaths
Telehealth Palliative Care: Patients vs In-person Palliative Care: Patients: deaths from any cause
Calculated by ConductScience from the counts the trial posted to ClinicalTrials.gov.
2 sourcestrial-comparisons-2026-03-23-0.1.0
Cite this record
ConductScience Library. Telehealth Palliative Care: Patients vs In-person Palliative Care: Patients: deaths from any cause. Trial comparisons, record NCT03375489-deaths. Release trial-comparisons-2026-03-23-0.1.0, 23 Mar 2026. https://conductscience.org/library/comparisons/NCT03375489-deaths
On this page
Measures6
Calculated by ConductScience from the counts the trial posted to ClinicalTrials.gov.
| Measure | Value | 95% interval, lower | 95% interval, upper | Method | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Risk in group 1 | 0.577 | 0.538 | 0.615 | wilson | |
| Risk in group 2 | 0.596 | 0.557 | 0.634 | wilson | |
| Risk difference, group 1 minus group 2 | -0.0198 | -0.0742 | 0.0347 | newcombe hybrid score | |
| Risk ratio, group 1 over group 2 | 0.967 | 0.881 | 1.06 | log | |
| Odds ratio, group 1 over group 2 | 0.922 | 0.736 | 1.15 | log | |
| Number needed to treat, for one fewer death from any cause on Telehealth Palliative Care: Patients than on In-person Palliative Care: Patients | 50.5 | from the risk difference interval | the interval includes no difference |
Source ClinicalTrials.gov
Groups2
Neither group, or both, names a comparator, so the groups keep ClinicalTrials.gov's order.
| Group | Title | Description | With the outcome | Analysed | ClinicalTrials.gov code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group 1 | Telehealth Palliative Care: Patients | * Patient and caregiver will meet with the palliative care clinician in person within four weeks of enrollment.~* Subsequent visits with the palliative care clinician will be conducted with the patient and caregiver in their home or other location using video at least every four weeks.~* Patient and caregiver may be scheduled to meet with the palliative care clinician in the clinic if requested by the patient or a clinician.~(Note: Caregiver enrollment in the study and attendance at palliative care visits are voluntary, and the patient can participate without an enrolled caregiver.)~Telehealth Palliative Care: Teleconference meeting via video with the palliative care team. Palliative care is a medical specialty focused on lessening (or palliating) patients' symptoms and helping patients and their families cope with a serious illness. | 365 | 633 | EG000 |
| Group 2 | In-person Palliative Care: Patients | * Patient and caregiver will be scheduled for their first in-person palliative care visit within four weeks of enrollment and then at least every four weeks thereafter until the patient is no longer coming into the clinic.~* In-person palliative care visits will be scheduled on the same day as an oncology visit if possible.~(Note: Caregiver enrollment in the study and attendance at palliative care visits are voluntary, and the patient can participate without an enrolled caregiver.)~In-person Palliative Care: In-person meeting with the palliative care team in clinic. Palliative care is a medical specialty focused on lessening (or palliating) patients' symptoms and helping patients and their families cope with a serious illness. | 368 | 617 | EG001 |
Source ClinicalTrials.gov
Harm
- What it counts
- Total, all-cause mortality
- Time frame
Source ClinicalTrials.gov
Trial
- Title
- Early Integrated Telehealth Versus In-Person Palliative Care for Patients With Lung Cancer
- NCT number
- NCT03375489
- Phases
- NA
- Conditions
- Lung Cancer
- Interventions
- Telehealth Palliative Care, In-person Palliative Care
- Lead sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Results first posted
- 2025-05-16
- Results on ClinicalTrials.gov
- https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03375489?tab=results
Source ClinicalTrials.gov
Source
- Release
- trial-comparisons-2026-03-23-0.1.0
- Release manifest SHA-256
- f66225897fbf258b57ea10bdacfd0347d3cdfda93f7f5685234b7e06ea36fa57
- AACT copy
- 2026-03-23
- Tables read
- outcome_counts.parquet, outcome_measurements.parquet, outcomes.parquet, reported_event_totals.parquet, reported_events.parquet, result_groups.parquet, studies.parquet, ctgov_trial.parquet
Source ClinicalTrials.gov
Sources 2
- ClinicalTrials.gov's posted results, through CTTI's AACTFreely available. Acknowledgement requested
- ClinicalTrials.govNo license stated
Each source's terms
- ClinicalTrials.gov's posted results, through CTTI's AACTClinicalTrials.gov data via Aggregate Analysis of ClinicalTrials.gov (AACT), CTTI. CTTI makes its materials freely available and requests acknowledgement. https://aact.ctti-clinicaltrials.org/documentation/299
- ClinicalTrials.govnone stated
ClinicalTrials.gov's data carry an international copyright outside the United States: https://clinicaltrials.gov/about-site/terms-conditions. The measures are ConductScience's calculation from them.
For software
Read this comparison from software.
The record is JSON. No key.
GET https://conductscience.org/api/comparisons/v1/NCT03375489-deaths