Patient Priority Care for Older Adults With Multiple Chronic Conditions (PPC-CCF)

May 2, 2025 updated by: Ardeshir Hashmi, The Cleveland Clinic

Patient Priority Care for Older Adults With Multiple Chronic Conditions Achieved Through Primary and Specialty Care Alignment

Healthcare for older adults with multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) is burdensome and of uncertain benefit, resulting in unwanted and unhelpful care. Patient Priorities Care (PPC) aligns care with patients' health priorities (i.e. the health outcomes most desired given the healthcare each is willing and able to receive). The aim of this project is to test, using a parallel group design involving 2 matched primary care sites, whether PPC decreases patient treatment burden and unwanted and unnecessary health care as well as assess what the value of this program is for patients.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Healthcare for older adults with multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) is burdensome and of uncertain benefit, resulting in unwanted and unhelpful care. Patient Priorities Care (PPC) is an approach that aligns care with patients' health priorities (i.e. the health outcomes most desired given the healthcare each is willing and able to receive). PPC offers the opportunity to increase value by improving both outputs (desired health outcomes) and inputs (healthcare preferences) for these major users of healthcare.

We will employ a quasi-experimental, usual care (UC) group design, involving 2 primary care sites (1 PPC and 1 UC. Patients are assigned to intervention or usual care arms based on their primary care practice location. We will use analytic techniques (e.g., inverse propensity score weighting) designed to reduce selection bias and balance PPC and UC sites in terms of baseline characteristics. Data collection will occur through quantitative and qualitative interviews and health encounter information in the Electric Health Record(EHR).

Patient Priorities Care requires the elicitation and documentation of patient health outcome goals and care preferences and the alignment of clinical care with goals and priorities to achieve patients' health outcome goals and reduce the burden of multi-morbidity. Participants will be enrolled in the Patient Priorities Care Program and speak with a trained health priorities facilitator to elicit their healthcare preferences and health outcome goals, which together constitute their health priorities. This information will be documented, entered into the EHR, and shared with the clinicians who will then use the Patient Priorities Care approach with patients to inform and guide treatment decisions. Patients will participate in the program and be followed for up to one year from the health priorities identification visit.

To determine the value of PPC, comparable primary care sites within the Cleveland Clinic will be assigned to PPC or Usual care (UC). Clinicians and staff at the PPC site will be trained to identify and align decision-making with the health priorities of older adults with MCCs. Value will be compared using patient and provider-reported outcomes, healthcare utilization, and possibly costs at PPC and UC sites.

The ultimate goal of our work is to implement and evaluate this approach to care for older adults with multiple chronic conditions that focuses on what matters most to them and is less fragmented and burdensome, resulting in better quality and outcomes at lower cost. This study will focus on evaluating practice change at test sites at the Cleveland Clinic.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

264

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • Ohio
      • Lakewood, Ohio, United States, 44107
        • Cleveland Clinic Lakewood Family Health Center

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

66 years and older (Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Age 66 and older
  2. In the Cleveland Clinic patient population
  3. In the clinician practices selected as intervention or usual care practice sites
  4. Clinically identified by: Those who meet any of several criteria i. 3 chronic conditions (See appendix 0 for the complete list) ii. 10 medications iii. >2 ED visits over the past year iv. >1 hospitalization (or >10 days in hospital) v. receive any care coordination services vi. 2 specialists over past year

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. In hospice or meeting hospice criteria for any condition
  2. Advanced dementia or moderate to profound intellectual disabilities
  3. Not English speaking
  4. Nursing home resident

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: Treatment
  • Allocation: Non-Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Single

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intervention (Implementing Patient Priorities Care)
Patient Priorities Care requires the elicitation and documentation of patient health outcome goals and care preferences and the alignment of clinical care with health goals and healthcare preferences (collectively referred to as health priorities). Participants will be contacted by a trained priorities facilitator in-person or over the phone to elicit their health priorities. This information will be documented in the PPC- GOALS AND PREFERENCES form in the EHR and shared with the clinicians who will then use the Patient Priorities Care approach with patients to inform and guide treatment decisions.
Behavioral: Patient Priorities Care

Patient Priorities Care (PPC) is an innovative approach to shared decision-making that draws from existing professional training.

PPC requires the elicitation and documentation of patient health outcome goals and care preferences and the alignment of clinical care with health goals and healthcare preferences. This information will be collected and documented in the EHR by facilitators and shared with the clinicians who will then use the PPC approach with patients to inform and guide treatment decisions.

The PCPs will be trained in decisional strategies that have been shown to help align care with patients' health priorities. While encouraged to use these decisional strategies, PCPs will be free to make the recommendations they feel most appropriate for each patient.

This intervention has been developed to be integrated seamlessly into usual care.

Other Names:
  • PPC
No Intervention: Usual Care (Not implementing PPC)
Patients will receive routine clinical care.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Treatment Burden
Time Frame: from baseline to follow-up at 8-9 months
Change in patient score on 'Treatment Burden Questionnaire' (TBQ, score range 0-150, Cronbach's alpha=0.90) Lower score reflects less perceived treatment burden.
from baseline to follow-up at 8-9 months
Achievement of Desired Activities
Time Frame: at follow-up (8-9 months) The scale instructions do not reference timeframe.
Patient score on PROMIS Ability to Participate in Social Roles and Activities Shot Form 6a (score range 6-30; Cronbach's alpha = 0.98) Higher score reflects more social participation.
at follow-up (8-9 months) The scale instructions do not reference timeframe.
Health Care Utilization Defined by Healthcare Contact Days
Time Frame: from 3 months prior to 12 months following baseline interview
Number of health care contact days defined as number of ED visits, days in hospital +.5*number of outpatient encounters for procedures, tests, healthcare visits.
from 3 months prior to 12 months following baseline interview

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Shared Decision Making and Goal Ascertainment
Time Frame: at 8-9 months follow-up
Change in patient score on CollaboRATE tool (score 0-100, Cronbach's alpha=0.89) from baseline to follow-up up at 8-9 months and response to Cleveland Clinic ACO survey item "When starting a new medication, did your provider ask what you thought was best for you?" Scores are dichotomized 100 vs. <100 with 100 being the percent of participants who reported the top score of all three items.
at 8-9 months follow-up

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

The Cleveland Clinic

Collaborators

Yale University
Donaghue Medical Research Foundation

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Ardeshir Hashmi, MD, The Cleveland Clinic

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Helpful Links

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

August 14, 2020

Primary Completion (Actual)

January 15, 2022

Study Completion (Actual)

July 30, 2023

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

August 11, 2020

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 11, 2020

First Posted (Actual)

August 12, 2020

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

May 4, 2025

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

May 2, 2025

Last Verified

May 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 20-555

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

YES

IPD Plan Description

Dedientified data may be shared on a case-by-case basis after compliance and regulatory approval have been obtained.

IPD Sharing Time Frame

After publication. Data will be retained for a period of six year after study closure.

IPD Sharing Access Criteria

Access will be provided on a case-by-case basis pending approval by the Cleveland Clinic IRB and law department.

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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