TeamTalk: Improving Inter-professional Communication During Cancer Treatment

Launched by WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · Jul 16, 2025

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ClinConnect Summary

This study, called TeamTalk, is looking at ways to improve communication among healthcare providers who care for children with cancer, especially in hospitals where resources are limited. Good teamwork and clear communication between doctors, nurses, and other staff can help provide better care and may even improve survival for these children. The study will try new methods both for individual healthcare workers and for the hospital system as a whole to see if these changes make a difference.

Hospitals that currently have challenges with communication and provide care to children with cancer may take part, especially those identified as needing improvement through previous assessments. Healthcare workers who care for hospitalized children with cancer who might get worse are eligible. If you join, you can expect to be part of efforts to strengthen how team members share information and work together during treatment. The study is not yet recruiting, but it aims to support hospitals and caregivers in providing safer, more coordinated care for young cancer patients in settings where it's needed most.

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ALL

Eligibility criteria

• 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