Vital signs alert could save lives in blood cancer care
NCT ID NCT06409767
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 26, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study tests whether using a simple early warning score (NEWS) to quickly move high-risk blood cancer patients to the ICU can reduce deaths and organ failure. Over 2,200 adults receiving intensive chemotherapy or stem cell transplants will take part across ten hospitals. Half the hospitals will use the warning system; the other half will continue usual care.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- National Early Warning Score (NEWS) monitoring with ICU referral
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could show that closely monitoring vital signs and acting early saves more lives in blood cancer patients undergoing intensive treatment.
- What could go wrong
- This is a large trial but it tests a monitoring strategy, not a new drug. The benefit may be small, and early ICU admission could increase anxiety and resource use without improving survival.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 2,224 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Apr 2025
- Expected to finish
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Jul 2028
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A government agency
The lead sponsor is a government body.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Adult patient * Hospitalization in a protected unit of a hematology department for induction therapy of acute myeloid leukemia or acute lymphoblastic leukemia induction, intensive chemotherapy with autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation, allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation * Expected length of stay in the hematology department of at least 7 days * Patient with social security * Signed informed consent form Exclusion Criteria: * Decision of care limitation with decision not to transfer to ICU or not initiate organ support * Pregnant, parturient or breastfeeding woman * Person deprived of liberty by judicial or administrative decision * Person under forced psychiatric care * Person under legal protection * Person unable to express consent * Hospitalization for Chimeric Antigenic Receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
How to take part
Only the study team decides who joins. These are the ways to reach them.
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The places running it
10 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
ClinicalTrials.gov lists the study team's own contact details, including names and phone numbers. We don't republish those.
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A doctor treating you
A doctor who knows your case can contact a study site on your behalf, and can tell you whether this study is worth pursuing at all.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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Centre Hospitalier Amiens-Picardie
RECRUITINGAmiens, 80054, France
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Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Besancon
RECRUITINGBesançon, 25030, France
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Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Brest
RECRUITINGBrest, 29609, France
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Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Nantes
RECRUITINGNantes, 44093, France
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Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Angers
RECRUITINGAngers, 49933, France
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Centre Hospitalier Universitaire poitiers
RECRUITINGPoitiers, 86021, France
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Centre Hospitalier universitaire Nancy
RECRUITINGNancy, 45011, France
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centre Hospitalier Universitaire Saint etienne
RECRUITINGSaint-Etienne, 42270, France
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centre Hospitalier Universitaire Strasbourg
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGStrasbourg, 67098, France
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centre Hospitalier Universitaire Tours
RECRUITINGTours, 37044, France
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