Frailty Clinical Trial
Official title:
A Partnered Evaluation to Improve Identification and Management of Functional Impairment and Frailty for Older Veterans in VA Primary Care
Maintaining functional status, or the ability to perform daily activities, is central to older adults' quality of life, health, and ability to remain independent. Identifying functional impairments is essential for clinicians to provide optimal care to older adults, and on a population level, understanding function can help anticipate service needs. Yet uptake of standardized measurement of functional status into patient care has been slow and inconsistent due to the burden posed by current tools. The purpose of the proposed QUERI Partnered Evaluation Initiative is to implement and evaluate a patient-centered, low-burden intervention to improve measurement of functional status in VA primary care settings nationally. The investigators hypothesize that implementing this intervention will increase identification and improve management of functional impairment among older Veterans while providing key data to inform VHA strategic planning related to long-term services and supports.
Status | Not yet recruiting |
Enrollment | 10000 |
Est. completion date | December 31, 2026 |
Est. primary completion date | December 31, 2026 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | No |
Gender | All |
Age group | 60 Years and older |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: - Veteran - 60 years old - Seen in Veterans Health Administration primary care after implementation begins Exclusion Criteria: - Non-Veteran - <60 years old - Not seen in Veterans Health Administration primary care |
Country | Name | City | State |
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United States | Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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VA Office of Research and Development |
United States,
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Change in reach | Reach is defined as the proportion of eligible Veterans who receive LVN screening and PCP assessment at each center. The investigators will identify eligible Veterans (i.e., 60 years old, seen in primary care after implementation begins) and use Health Factors to identify completed screening, defined as an LVN completing the electronic tool, and assessment, defined as a PCP reviewing screening results and either (a) documenting via checkbox that further referral is not needed or (b) placing a referral to address impairments. | 9 months, 15 months, 18 months | |
Primary | Change in clinical effectiveness | The primary outcome is proportion of Veterans with impairments who receive appropriate referrals. Appropriate referrals will be defined as the PCP reviewing the LVN screening results and either (1) documenting via checkbox that further referral is not needed or (2) placing a referral to address identified impairments. | 9 months, 15 months, 18 months, 24 months | |
Primary | Change in association of electronic health record frailty indices with functional status | Frailty will be measured using the validated VA Frailty Index (VA-FI), calculated using the cumulative deficit method. The VA-FI includes up to 31 age-related health deficits based on VA EHR diagnostic and procedure codes. Categories include non-frail (0-0.1), pre-frail (0.11-0.2), and frail (>0.2). Functional status will be measured from Health Factors. In sensitivity analyses, the investigators will examine other EHR frailty indices (e.g., JEN Index100) | 9 months, 15 months, 18 months, 24 months | |
Secondary | Change in adoption | Adoption is defined as (1) the proportion of LVNsat each medical center who regularly complete screening; and (2) the proportion of PCPs at each medical center who regularly complete assessment. Adequate adoption for each clinician-type is defined as 80%. | 9 months, 15 months, 18 months, 24 months | |
Secondary | Change in adoption in clinician notes | The investigators will review a subset of charts at the 6 sampled centers to examine if clinician notes for the visit when screening was completed have content related to functional status and type of content. | 9 months, 15 months, 18 months, 24 months | |
Secondary | Change in fidelity | Fidelity to implementation strategies will be measured using Managerial Champion attendance at VISN-level monthly meetings (standard strategy) or technical assistance calls (enhanced strategy). Fidelity to intervention core components will be measured at the 6-site subsample to determine if core components were implemented as intended, accounting for adaptations and modifications that were consistent vs. inconsistent with intent. | 9 months, 15 months, 18 months, 24 months | |
Secondary | Recipient experience | Recipient experience will be assessed using interviews for Veterans and periodic reflections and interviews for clinicians and will be used to inform adaptations to intervention components and implementation strategies. To operationalize processes within PRISM's Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance domains, the investigators will use Normalization Process Theory (NPT) to guide qualitative data collection. | Through study completion, from 0 to 24 months | |
Secondary | Change in maintenance/sustainability | Maintenance/Sustainability will be measured as continued LVN screening and PCP assessment. The investigators will define adequate maintenance as 80% at 6 months after beginning Sustainment (i.e., at 24 months overall). | 24 months | |
Secondary | Change in clinician capacity for implementation and sustainment | To assess clinician capacity for implementation and sustainment, the investigators will use 3 validated survey measures: the Clinical Sustainability Assessment Tool (CSAT), Normalization MeAsurement Development (NoMAD) items, and Primary Care Team Dynamics (PC-TD) survey. CSAT assesses 7 domains: engaged leadership; engaged stakeholders; organizational readiness; workflow integration; implementation and training; monitoring and evaluation; and outcomes and effectiveness (35 items, Likert scale; higher scores indicate greater capacity for sustainability). NoMAD uses NPT constructs to identify patterns across individual factors: for example, the intervention makes sense to staff (coherence) but is failing due to low engagement (cognitive participation; 23 items, Likert scale, higher scores reflect higher normalization). The PC-TD subscales measure shared understanding and communication (11 items, Likert scale, higher scores reflect more optimal team dynamics). | 9 months, 15 months, 18 months, 24 months | |
Secondary | Change in facility-free days | Facility-free days measures the number of days a Veteran is alive and outside a hospital or SNF, calculated from GECDAC residential history files (RHF). | 9 months, 15 months, 18 months, 24 months | |
Secondary | Change in number of emergency department visits | Measured using GECDAC Core Files. | 9 months, 15 months, 18 months, 24 months | |
Secondary | Change in number of hospitalizations | Measured using GECDAC Core Files. | 9 months, 15 months, 18 months, 24 months | |
Secondary | Change in functional status | Scored using screener for difficulty/need for help with each of 6 ADLs/7 IADLs. No difficulty scored as 0, difficulty as 1, need for help as 2. Score ranges from 0-26 with higher scores indicating more severe functional impairment. | 9 months, 15 months, 18 months, 24 months |
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