Evaluating the Implementation and Impact of Standard-of-care Delivered Oncology Financial Navigation
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Summary
The purpose of this study is to understand the implementation and impact of a pragmatically-delivered oncology financial navigation program. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1. How did oncology financial navigation implementation strategies affect implementation outcomes? 2. What is the impact of financial navigation on patient financial hardship, quality of life, and psychological distress? 3. How were implementation strategies utilized to overcome barriers to oncology financial navigation? Researchers will examine secondary, standard-of-care collected, patient-reported data, electronic medical record data, and qualitative interview data to answer these questions.
Description
Guided by the RE-AIM Extension for Equitable Sustainability framework, the investigators will use a series of implementation and effectiveness aims to evaluate equitable implementation of oncology financial navigation into routine cancer care delivery. The investigators hypothesize the proposed assessment will identify potential areas to improve implementation of oncology financial navigation, which will result in better financial and clinical outcomes for patients with cancer. The investigators propose a pragmatic, hybrid effectiveness-implementation study to assess outcomes of oncology finan…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Aim 1: Inclusion criteria: As oncology financial navigation will be implemented as standard of care, implementation outcomes will be evaluated for: 1. All patients with cancer seen at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Medical Oncology clinic 2. UAB oncology financial navigators Exclusion criteria: None. Aim 2: Inclusion criteria: This will be a secondary data analysis of patient-reported data routinely collected since 2020, which will include: 1. Patients with cancer seen at the UAB Medical Oncology clinic 2. Patients with non-missing patient-reported outcome data Exclusion…
Interventions
- BehavioralFinancial navigation
Oncology financial navigation is an evidence-based intervention which helps patients prepare for out-of-pocket treatment costs, optimize health insurance, and access financial resources to reduce cancer-related financial hardship.
Location
- University of Alabama at BirminghamBirmingham, Alabama