Implementation of Communication Disability Collection and Accommodations in Primary Care Settings (DECA)

July 6, 2026 updated by: NYU Langone Health
This multi-methods-multi-site study aims to adapt and evaluate the effects of an implementation support package of strategies to assist primary care clinics in documenting patients' communication disability (CD) and accommodation needs in the electronic health record (EHR) and providing communication accommodations through EHR data extraction, surveys, focus groups, interviews, and clinical practice observations.

Study Overview

Status

Status

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Recruiting

Conditions

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Intervention / Treatment

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Study Type

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Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

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126870

Phase

Phase

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  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

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Study Contact

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Study Contact Backup

Study Locations

  • United States
    • Colorado
      • Aurora, Colorado, United States, 80045
        • Recruiting
        • The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
        • Principal Investigator:
          • Christina Studts, PhD
      • Denver, Colorado, United States, 80204
        • Recruiting
        • Denver Health
        • Principal Investigator:
          • Alicia Wong, MD
    • Illinois
      • Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
        • Recruiting
        • University of Illinois Chicago
        • Principal Investigator:
          • Jennifer Duffecy, MD
      • Evanston, Illinois, United States, 60611
        • Recruiting
        • Northwestern University
        • Principal Investigator:
          • Carol Haywood, PhD
    • New York
      • New York, New York, United States, 10016
        • Recruiting
        • NYU Langone Health
        • Principal Investigator:
          • Meghan Morris, PhD

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

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Ages Eligible for Study

  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

EHR Data Extraction

  1. Adults 18+ years
  2. Patients who had at least one visit within the 21-month EHR data collection period at participating study clinics.

Clinic Leadership, Providers & Clinic Staff

  1. Adults 18+ years
  2. Individuals of all genders and members of all racial and ethnic categories employed at participating study clinics will be eligible for inclusion. NYULH study personnel will enroll providers and staff referred for study inclusion from all participating study clinics; not just NYULH staff exclusively.

Patients

  1. Adults 18+ years
  2. Patients with communication disabilities seen at least once at participating study clinics during the 21-month study period.
  3. Patients who self-identify as proficient in English communication as defined by English being a preferred language, or self-reported ability to participate in an interview in English without the support of an interpreter.

Exclusion Criteria:

EHR Data Extraction

  1. Patients whose records are unavailable due to technical issues.
  2. Patients who are not seen at least once at participating study clinics during the 21-month data collection period.
  3. Duplicate records (e.g., duplicative EHR records marked for deletion).
  4. Patients who have opted-out of research participation.

Clinic Leadership, Providers & Clinic Staff Interviews and Focus Groups

  1. Being <18 years old
  2. Not an employed member of a participating study clinic or potential end user of the study implementation strategy.

Patient Interviews

  1. Being <18 years old
  2. Patients without communication disabilities.
  3. Patients with communication disabilities seen outside of participating study clinics.
  4. Patients who are unable to provide consent for themselves.
  5. Patients who report not being proficient in English communication or self-reported inability to participate in an interview in English without the support of an interpreter.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
  • Allocation: Non-Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Participant Group / Arm

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Intervention / Treatment

Intervention / Treatment

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Experimental: Implementation Support Package Clinics
Clinics will receive an implementation support package, designed to integrate patients' disability status into the EHR and provide accommodations for patients with CD
Behavioral: Implementation Support Package
The implementation support package includes materials, activities, and procedures ready for use in diverse primary care practices and will facilitate each clinic's determination of how they will implement collection of disability status and provision of accommodations.
No Intervention: Control Clinics
Clinics will not receive the implementation support package for patients with CD.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

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Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
(Aim 2) Patient Reach
Time Frame: Baseline, Implementation Follow Up (Approximately Month 9), Maintenance Follow Up (Approximately Month 21)
Percent of patients who have a visit during the time of data collection and have the communication disability field completed in the EHR. A positive outcome for having the communication disability field completed in the EHR will be "no disability" "speech/language disability", "hearing disability", "decline", or "other" documented in the EHR, while a negative outcome will be the CD fields being left blank. All adult patients who are seen in each clinic are eligible to have their disability status documented, regardless of the type of visit.
Baseline, Implementation Follow Up (Approximately Month 9), Maintenance Follow Up (Approximately Month 21)
(Aim 3) Adoption
Time Frame: Implementation Follow Up (Approximately Month 9), Maintenance Follow Up (Approximately Month 21)
Adoption assessed for all the patients with a recorded accommodation need; measured as the percentage of clinical encounters in which the accommodation was provided and used, as ascertained through the EHR.
Implementation Follow Up (Approximately Month 9), Maintenance Follow Up (Approximately Month 21)

Collaborators and Investigators

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Sponsor

Sponsor

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NYU Langone Health

Investigators

Investigators

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  • Principal Investigator: Megan Morris, PhD, megan.morris@nyulangone.org

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

Study Start

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September 1, 2025

Primary Completion (Estimated)

Primary Completion

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March 30, 2027

Study Completion (Estimated)

Study Completion

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May 31, 2027

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

First Submitted

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June 15, 2026

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

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June 15, 2026

First Posted (Actual)

First Posted

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June 18, 2026

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

Last Update Posted

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July 8, 2026

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

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July 6, 2026

Last Verified

Last Verified

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July 1, 2026

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Terms related to this study

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Other Study ID Numbers

Other Study ID Numbers

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  • 25-00040

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

YES

IPD Plan Description

The de-identified participant data from the final research dataset will be deposited to the digital repository of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) to ensure that the research community has long-term access to the data. These files may be accessed directly through the ICPSR website. After agreeing to Terms of Use, users with an ICPSR My Data account and an authorized IP address from a member institution may download the data, and non-members may purchase the files. The research data from this project will be supplied to ICPSR for permanent storage at the end of the project and incrementally; all data not otherwise published by the end of the grant period will be embargoed for one year to allow finalizations of manuscripts and data preparation for sharing. The protocol and statistical analysis plan will be posted on Clinicaltrials.gov only as required by federal regulation or supporting awards and agreements.

IPD Sharing Time Frame

The research data from this project will be supplied to ICPSR for permanent storage at the end of the project and incrementally; all data not otherwise published by the end of the grant period will be embargoed for one year to allow finalizations of manuscripts and data preparation for sharing.

IPD Sharing Access Criteria

Users with an ICPSR My Data account and an authorized IP address from a member institution may download the data, and non-members may purchase the files.

IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type

  • STUDY_PROTOCOL
  • SAP

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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