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Using Health-related Quality of Life (HRQL) in Routine Clinical Care

23. marts 2020 opdateret af: University of Alberta

An Assessment of the Effects of the Use of Measures of Health-related Quality of Life in Routine Clinical Care:an Application to Lung Transplantation.

The objective of this study is to assess the effects of using HRQL measures in the clinical care of pre- and post-lung transplant patients.

The hypotheses are that the inclusion of HRQL measures, the Health Utilities Index System Mark 2(HUI2) and Mark 3 (HUI3), in routine clinical care of pre- and post-lung transplant patients, will: 1) improve patient-clinician communication;2) affect patient management; 3) improve patients' HRQL.

Studieoversigt

Status

Afsluttet

Betingelser

Intervention / Behandling

Detaljeret beskrivelse

Recently there has been increasing interest in the use of health-related quality of life (HRQL) measures in routine clinical practice. Traditionally, patient care has been based on laboratory results, medical history, and signs and symptoms diagnosed by clinicians. The inclusion of HRQL measures in routine practice may provide important and often otherwise missing information, revealing the impact of the disease or its treatment on the patient's physical, emotional and social well-being, and may assist in patient management. HRQL assessments may assist in changing the medical paradigm from a disease-centered approach to a patient-centered one.

Several studies in mental health and oncology discuss the application of HRQL measures in clinical practice. Taenzer et al (2000) and Detmar et al. (2002) provide evidence that using HRQL measures improves patient-clinician communication. Velikova et al (2004) detected impacts on communication and the emotional well-being of patients.

Using a framework based on these previous studies and the methods for the health technology assessment of diagnostic technologies (Guyatt et al. 1986), we will assess the effects of including HRQL assessments in the routine clinical care of patients undergoing solid organ transplantation (lung).

We expect that the routine use of HRQL measures in clinical practice will affect patient-clinician communication, patient management, and patient outcome.

Lung transplantation trades a fatal disease (end-stage pulmonary disease) for a chance at prolonged survival and improved quality of life, albeit with immunosuppression. In this context, generic preference-based measures such as HUI2 and HUI3 are preferred to specific measures, because they measure a broader range of health dimensions, including pain, ambulation and emotional issues that are expected to be relevant. Preference-based measures provide scores on the conventional 0.00 (dead) to 1.00 (perfect health) scale that allows for the integration of morbidity and mortality effects and calculation of quality adjusted life years (QALYs) and health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE).

Undersøgelsestype

Observationel

Tilmelding (Faktiske)

213

Kontakter og lokationer

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Studiesteder

  • Canada
    • Alberta
      • Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
        • University of Alberta Hospital

Deltagelseskriterier

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Berettigelseskriterier

Aldre berettiget til at studere

18 år og ældre (Voksen, Ældre voksen)

Tager imod sunde frivillige

Ingen

Køn, der er berettiget til at studere

Alle

Beskrivelse

Inclusion Criteria:

  • pre-lung transplant:subjects who are included on the waiting list and are being seen at the out-patient clinic
  • post-lung transplant subjects.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • younger than 18 years of age
  • diagnosed as being cognitively impaired
  • unable to complete questionnaires in English

Studieplan

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Hvordan er undersøgelsen tilrettelagt?

Kohorter og interventioner

Gruppe / kohorte
Intervention / Behandling
Styring
Adfærdsmæssigt: HUI score card
Patients completed the HUI2 and HUI3 before the encounter with the clinician, the result was graphically represented in the HUI score card. Clinicians used the HUI score card as an extra tool to help them in the management of the patients
Andre navne:
  • Health Utilities Index Score Card

Hvad måler undersøgelsen?

Primære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
Communication Score
Tidsramme: Baseline and end of study (6 months)
Each clinician-patient encounter was audio tape-recorded. The content of the tape-recordings was examined and results recorded on the communication form by three blinded raters. This form tallies the number of issues discussed. The number of issues is summed to produce a communication score. The issues discussed included health attributes included in the HUI2 and HUI3: ambulation, self-care, anxiety, depression, cognitive problems, pain (type and frequency), vision, hearing speech and dexterity problems.
Baseline and end of study (6 months)
Management Composite
Tidsramme: At baseline and end of study (6 months)
Changes in clinical management were recorded in the chart review form. The number of referrals to other healthcare providers, tests ordered (X-rays, blood test, bronchoscopies) and changes in medication (reduction or increase dosage, addition or discontinuation) were summed to produce the management composite.
At baseline and end of study (6 months)
EuroQol, EQ-5D.
Tidsramme: At baseline and end of study (6 months).
Generic preference-based measure. EQ-5D consists of two sections: a 100-point visual analog scale (VAS) and a descriptive system that contains five attributes (mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain or discomfort, and anxiety or depression) with three levels per attribute ("no problem", "some problems" and "extreme problems").Using the US scoring function EQ-5D index scores range from -0.11 (all-worst health state, worse than dead), to 0.00 (dead) to 1.00 (perfect health). The EQ-5D is easy to complete, valid and reliable.
At baseline and end of study (6 months).

Sekundære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale,HADS. Completed at Baseline and End of the Study.
Tidsramme: Baseline and end of study (6 months)
HADS is a self-complete mental health measure. The scale consists of 14 items, seven of which assess anxiety and seven which assess depression. Each item is on a four point scale and the scores are added to give a total ranging from 0 to 21 for anxiety and 0 to 21 for depression. Higher scores indicate more severe anxiety or depression. A cut-point of 8 or 9 indicates mild burden for the two scales; 11 or 12 indicates severe . All the patients completed HADS at baseline and at the end of the study.
Baseline and end of study (6 months)

Samarbejdspartnere og efterforskere

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Sponsor

University of Alberta

Samarbejdspartnere

Roche Pharma AG
Institute of Health Economics, Canada

Efterforskere

  • Ledende efterforsker: David H Feeny, PhD, Professor Economics, University of Alberta

Datoer for undersøgelser

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Studer store datoer

Studiestart

1. juli 2005

Primær færdiggørelse (Faktiske)

1. april 2007

Studieafslutning (Faktiske)

1. maj 2008

Datoer for studieregistrering

Først indsendt

4. april 2007

Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier

5. april 2007

Først opslået (Skøn)

6. april 2007

Opdateringer af undersøgelsesjournaler

Sidste opdatering sendt (Faktiske)

1. april 2020

Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier

23. marts 2020

Sidst verificeret

1. marts 2020

Mere information

Begreber relateret til denne undersøgelse

Nøgleord

Yderligere relevante MeSH-vilkår

Andre undersøgelses-id-numre

  • IHE-188

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