Implications of Practice
ONCOLOGY
We extracted a patient-centered and pragmatic measure of the time spent with healthcare contact from a completed clinical trial. We identified days with in-person healthcare contact (“”contact days’’) and days spent at home (“”home days’’). In the LY.12 trial, we demonstrate that although 2 different chemotherapy regimens were associated with similar short- and long-term oncologic outcomes, one chemotherapy regimen was associated with more contact days and many more hospitalized days. Oncology clinical trial reports that present such data alongside traditional efficacy endpoints can help patients understand expected time use patterns and guide patient-oncologist decision-making regarding pursuing treatment approaches.