Incorporating Patient Capacity Into the Clinical Landscape

Mayo Clinic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Disease

Treatments: Other: Patient Capacity Assessment Instrument

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02390570

14-008621

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is designed to answer why "patient capacity" (i.e. patient available abilities and resources to enact self-care and access healthcare) is not regularly documented in the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) in a way that is useful for clinicians.

Through the implementation of communication tools designed for patient capacity assessment and engagement of stakeholders in a process of user-centered design, the study team hypothesizes that the study can help clinicians elicit this information in conversation and regularly document it in the medical record for future healthcare discussions.

Enrollment: 111 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients who have one or more chronic condition and do not have any barriers to consent (such as major cognitive disabilities) will be eligible for enrollment.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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111 participants in 1 patient group

Implementation Arm

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Patient Capacity Assessment Instrument