Patient Centered Quality Reporting

University of California Irvine (UCI)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Quality Report Cards

Treatments: Other: NHCPlus

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02738320

HS# 2012-9098

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 225 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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225 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention patients will receive access to NHCPlus when discharge to a nursing home from the hospital is expected.

Treatment:

Other: NHCPlus

Usual Care

No Intervention group

Description:

Control patients will receive the usual care when discharge to a nursing home from the hospital is expected.