Comparative Effectiveness of Early Integrated Telehealth versus In-Person Palliative Care for Patients with Advanced Lung Cancer

This research study is evaluating ways to provide palliative care to patients who have
recently been diagnosed with lung cancer and their families.

Inclusion Criteria:

- Patient Eligibility Criteria

- Diagnosed with advanced non-small cell lung cancer being treated with
non-curative intent, and informed of advanced disease within the prior twelve
weeks

- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status from 0
(asymptomatic) to 3 (symptomatic and in bed >50% of the day)

- The ability to read and respond to questions in English or Spanish

- Receiving primary cancer care at one of the participating sites

- Age > or = 18 years

- Lives in a state where their institutions' palliative care clinicians are
licensed to practice

- Caregiver Eligibility Criteria

- Relative or friend who is identified by the patient participant and lives with
the patient or has contact with them at least twice per week.

- The ability to read and respond to questions in English or Spanish

- Age > or = 18 years

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patient Exclusion Criteria

- Already receiving outpatient PC or hospice services

- Cognitive or psychiatric conditions as determined by the treating oncologist to
prohibit study consent or participation

- Caregiver Exclusion Criteria --Cognitive or psychiatric conditions as determined by
the treating oncologist to prohibit study consent or participation