Avoiding Health Disparities When Collecting Patient Contextual Data for Clinical Care and Pragmatic Research

Medical College of Wisconsin

Status: Completed

Conditions: Communication

Treatments: Behavioral: Facilitated Enrollment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03766841

PRO00031177

Details and patient eligibility

About

To assess whether the routine collection of patient-contextual data improves patient activation and communication, and can mitigate racial disparities in communication and engagement, we are inviting patients who have upcoming appointments at the participating health system to participate in a communication study. Patients will be randomized to having guided (facilitated) enrollment in a tool that collects patient contextual data, or to usual care. All patients are invited directly by the health system to use the tool. Statistical methods will be used to determine the impact of the tool's use on outcomes of interest, as well as the impact on completion by the use of the facilitated enrollment. The study will particularly focus on assessing the impact of patient-contextual data and communication on heath disparities.

Enrollment: 301 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• aged 18 or older
• able to speak and understand English,
• a patient at a selected Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconson primary care or internal medicine clinic (i.e., General Internal Medicine On Campus of Milwaukee Regional Medical Center, Sargeant Health Center, or Tosa Health Center (Plank Road Clinic) with an upcoming (> 4 weeks away) appointment and at least 1 previous appointment with the same provider in the previous 12 months.
• Patients with cognitive impairment (e.g. dementia) are eligible to participate through the use of proxies who would ordinarily accompany them to appointments and complete forms or post-visit surveys on their behalf.

Exclusion criteria

• Minors and non-English speaking patients are not eligible to participate

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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301 participants in 2 patient groups

Facilitated Enrollment

Experimental group

Description:

Patients will be aided in the account creation and usage of a consumer informatics tool to collect and report patient-contextual data within the electronic health record

Treatment:

Behavioral: Facilitated Enrollment

Usual Care

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients will be invited to use the patient contextual data tool as per usual care, but will not receive additional assistance in account creation and usage.