Medical Home Care for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Phase 2

Study Summary

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT) has the potential to cure a variety of malignant and non-malignant diseases. However, it is associated with significant morbidity, and treatment-related mortality. This is due in large part to the prolonged pancytopenia and immunosuppression associated with the preparatory regimen of chemotherapy and/or radiation and the wait until engraftment of the transplanted hematopoietic stem cells. During this vulnerable period, infectious complications are common. Historically HCT patients were kept in protected environments to safeguard their health during the pancytopenic phase; despite these measures, infectious complications and graft versus host disease (GVHD) remained common and lead to significant morbidity and mortality after HCT. Currently patients are still closely watched in the inpatient or day hospital environment, though recent practices allow patients more freedom. This study randomizes eligible patients to receive post-transplant care at home vs. in the hospital or clinic, per standard of care. The primary objective is to compare the incidence of grade II-IV acute GVHD at 6 months in patients receiving patient-centered medical home (PCMH) vs standard care.

Primary Outcome

The primary endpoint is the incidence (number of events) of grade II-IV acute GVHD at 6 months. GVHD will be evaluated daily by advanced practice providers (APPs) according to standard criteria. The investigators will compare GVHD incidence rates between treatment arms using survival type regression modeling that takes competing risks into account. They will examine cause-specific Cox proportional hazards models as well as the proportional subdistribution hazard regression model developed by Fin

Interventions

• OTHER Standard Care
• OTHER Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH)