Patient Centered Quality Reporting

The purpose of this study is to develop a consumer friendly web-based interface between Nursing Home Compare (NHC) and an e-coaching/decision-aid tool (NHCPlus) and determine if use of NHCPlus facilitates and enhances access to and use of NHC.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Quality Report Cards
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: NHCPlus

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 225
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • California
    • Irvine, California, United States, 92697
      • University of California

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 50 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients who have been admitted as an inpatient into the departments of Medicine or Surgery at the UC Irvine Medical Center, and whose discharge plan is to a nursing home.
• Family members of these patients, if they are involved in the choice of nursing home, were also recruited to the study, either as joint decision makers with the patients or as proxy decision makers for the patient.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients less than 50 years of age.
• Patients unable to use NHCPlus technology or participate in the nursing home choice decision (i.e. non-English speaking, severely visual or hearing impaired, dementia, or other debilitating illnesses) will be excluded unless they have a representative/proxy who will be involved in the decision to select the nursing home.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intervention; Intervention patients will receive access to NHCPlus when discharge to a nursing home from the hospital is expected.	Other: NHCPlus; A decision-aid tool that will interface with Nursing Home Compare and improve consumers' ability to assimilate and incorporate the information into their process of choosing a nursing home.
No Intervention: Usual Care; Control patients will receive the usual care when discharge to a nursing home from the hospital is expected.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Use of Nursing Home Compare information	Patients (or their families) self report their knowledge and use of the information in Nursing Home Compare.	up to 9 days post discharge
Quality Measures of chosen nursing home	Quality measures obtained from the Nursing Home Compare web based report card	up to 9 days post-discharge
Distance between patient/family residence and the chosen nursing home.	Driving distance between the patient zip code and the chosen nursing home zip code using Google maps.	up to 9 days post-discharge
Length of stay in hospital	Number of days between admission date and discharge date	between 1 and 68 days

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of California, Irvine
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Dana Mukamel, PhD, University of California

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: March 1, 2014
• Primary Completion (Actual): September 1, 2015
• Study Completion (Actual): November 1, 2015

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 5, 2016
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 8, 2016
• First Posted (Estimate): April 14, 2016

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): April 14, 2016
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 8, 2016
• Last Verified: April 1, 2016

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: HS# 2012-9098