NCT03110692

Health System Initiative to Reduce Unnecessary Daily X-Ray Image Guidance During Palliative Radiation Treatment

Extracted Fields (from Registry)
Protocol IDNCT03110692
Registration Date2017-04-12
Statuscompleted
SponsorUniversity of Pennsylvania
CountryUnited States
Industrynot industry
Blindingblinded
Center Typesingel-center RCT
Scopenational RCT
First Patient In2016-02-10
Last Patient Out2018-02-09
Publicationy
Gender %ALL
Mean Age18 Years -
LLM Classifications (Side-by-Side)
Field GLM
glm-5.1
10385ms / 8438 tok
CLAUDE
claude-sonnet-4-20250514
Thinking: claude-opus-4-20250514
4935ms / 9621 tok
OPENAI
gpt-4o
Thinking: o3
4289ms / 8288 tok
Review
rct_type cross-over RCT cross-over RCT cross-over RCT OK
cancer_status Cancer Cancer Cancer OK
non_cancer_spec N/A N/A N/A OK
setting_patient outpatient outpatient outpatient OK
setting_place other hospital → other
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: hospital Requery: other — The intervention (radiation treatment) is delivered across an outpatient network of 5 radiation oncology sites, which constitute ambulatory/outpatient care rather than an inpatient hospital admission.
other hospital → other
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: hospital Requery: other — This is a radiation oncology intervention delivered at outpatient radiation treatment facilities across the Penn Radiation Oncology network, which constitutes outpatient clinic settings rather than inpatient hospital care.
other other → other
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: other Requery: other — The intervention is delivered in outpatient settings within a network of radiation oncology clinics, not requiring hospital admission.
OK
feasibility fully powered RCT fully powered RCT fully powered RCT OK
intervention_pharmacologic no no no OK
intervention_chemo_immuno_radio no yes → no
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: yes Requery: no — The tested intervention is a behavioral quality improvement initiative to change prescribing defaults, not the radiation therapy itself which serves as the clinical context.
no no → no → no
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: no Requery: no — This study tests a behavioral intervention (default prescription template) to reduce imaging frequency during radiation treatment, not radiation therapy itself as the intervention being tested. Thinking: no — The trial tests a behavioral intervention (default prescription template) to reduce imaging frequency during radiation treatment, not testing radiation therapy itself as the intervention.
no no → yes → no
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: no Requery: yes — The trial tests a behavioral intervention aimed at optimizing radiation therapy practices. Thinking: no — The study tests a behavioral default template to reduce daily imaging during standard palliative radiation, not the radiation treatment itself as an experimental therapy.
OK
intervention_complementary no no no OK
intervention_device no no no OK
intervention_psychological no no no OK
intervention_complex no no no OK
intervention_acp no no no OK
intervention_music no no no OK
intervention_screening no no no OK
intervention_palliative no no
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: no
no yes → no
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: yes Requery: no — This study tests a default prescription template to reduce unnecessary daily imaging during radiation treatment - the intervention is a health services/quality improvement initiative, not palliative care consultation or service delivery itself.
no no → no
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: no Requery: no — The intervention involves introducing a default prescription template in the palliative setting to reduce unnecessary imaging during radiation, not palliative care itself.
OK
intervention_education no no no OK
intervention_digital no no no OK
intervention_other yes yes yes OK
outcome_symptom no no no OK
outcome_qol no no no OK
outcome_dignity no no no OK
outcome_cost yes yes yes OK
outcome_other yes no → yes
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: no Requery: yes — The primary outcome measures the rate of daily imaging, which is a healthcare utilization and feasibility metric rather than a direct measure of patient symptoms, quality of life, dignity, or cost.
yes yes → yes
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: yes Requery: yes — The primary outcome measures healthcare utilization (daily imaging frequency) which is a feasibility/implementation metric rather than symptom, quality of life, dignity, or cost outcomes.
yes yes → yes
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: yes Requery: yes — The outcome measures the reduction of unnecessary daily imaging, which is a feasibility and process improvement metric, not covered by symptom, QoL, dignity, or cost categories.
OK
pharmacologic_sub N/A N/A N/A OK
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