Risk Stratification for Patients With Hospital-diagnosed Advanced Lung Cancer

Subjects will be considered high risk if they have small cell histology, longer than 8 days hospitalization, high comorbidity, emergency department use or hospitalization in the previous 6 months, prescription of a wheelchair on hospital discharge, or Black and/or Hispanic race. Supportive care interventions such as navigation and palliative care will be recommended for this group. All hospitalized subjects with newly diagnosed ALC will be offered web- or telephone-based patient-reported outcome (PRO) symptom monitoring for 90 days following hospital discharge if they provide consent. Medical record evaluation of consented subjects will provide data for risk assessment and the high-risk group definition. Healthcare utilization including emergency department visits, hospitalizations, outpatient palliative care, and cancer treatment received will be compared.