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NCT number NCT04922320
Other study ID # IIR 20-079
Secondary ID 1 I01 HX003211-0
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
First received
Last updated
Start date September 15, 2022
Est. completion date June 30, 2025

Study information

Verified date February 2024
Source VA Office of Research and Development
Contact Aanand D Naik, MD BA
Phone (713) 794-8541
Email Aanand.Naik@va.gov
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The investigators will conduct a randomized control trial enrolling 366 older Veterans with multiple chronic conditions receiving primary care at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center and VA Connecticut Medical Center to determine if Patient Priorities Care reduces treatment burden, increases priorities-aligned home and community services, and sets shared health outcome goals compared with usual care. The investigators will randomize at the patient level rather than clinic or clinician level to evaluate the effect of identifying patient priorities on clinician decision making and alignment of care with identified priorities.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Recruiting
Enrollment 400
Est. completion date June 30, 2025
Est. primary completion date June 30, 2024
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 65 Years and older
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: - 2 encounters in prior 18 months - 3 active health problems on active problem list or prescribed 10 medications Exclusion Criteria: - nursing home resident - end stage renal disease on dialysis - active serious mental illness (psychosis, schizophrenia, etc) - active substance use disorder - complete hearing loss - dementia - Non-English speaker (translator required) - 4 or more no-show appointments in the last 6 months - the investigators will present a list of eligible patients to PCPs prior to chart review to identify patients who the PCP: - a) believes cannot participate independently or provide informed consent due to cognitive impairment - b) "would not be surprised if the patient passed away within the next 12 months?"

Study Design


Intervention

Behavioral:
Patient Priorities Care
A facilitator will schedule a PPC facilitation encounter 2-3 weeks before an upcoming PCP visit. The facilitator conducts a structured assessment using a written conversation guide that begins with general questions establishing what is most important to Veterans about their health and moves toward establishing specific goals (actionable outcomes), and what patients are willing/not willing to do to achieve these goals (care preferences). The result is a structured patient priorities report delivered to PCPs designed to facilitate changes in the patient's care plan to align it with his/her priorities. In the subsequent visit, the PCP will use one or more of the established PPC decisional strategies to align care with patients' priorities. Education for PCPs about the facilitation process, the patient priorities report, and the decisional strategies occurs prior to the PCP seeing any intervention patients. The PCP will document changes in care made to achieve the identified priorities.
Other:
Usual Care
PCPs will not be alerted when an encounter involves a UC group participant. UC participant visits will appear the same as all other unenrolled patient encounters. PCPs will be trained to address the needs of UC participants based on their typical approach without the use of a facilitator or explicit process for identifying patient priorities. UC participants will not receive any additional preparation

Locations

Country Name City State
United States Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX Houston Texas
United States VA Connecticut Healthcare System West Haven Campus, West Haven, CT West Haven Connecticut

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
VA Office of Research and Development

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (20)

Amenta E, Grigoryan L, Rajan SS, Ramsey D, Kramer JR, Walder A, Chou A, Van JN, Krein SL, Hysong S, Naik AD, Trautner BW. Quantifying the Implementation and Cost of a Multisite Antibiotic Stewardship Intervention for Asymptomatic Bacteriuria. Antimicrob S — View Citation

Chary A, Brickhouse E, Torres B, Cameron-Comasco L, Lee S, Punches B, Skains RM, Naik AD, Quatman-Yates CC, Kennedy M, Southerland LT, Liu S. Physical therapy consultation in the emergency department for older adults with falls: A qualitative study. J Am — View Citation

Chary A, Hernandez N, Rivera AP, Ramont V, Obi T, Santangelo I, Ritchie C, Singh H, Hayden E, Naik AD, Liu S, Kennedy M. Perceptions of Acute Care Telemedicine Among Caregivers for Persons Living with Dementia: A Qualitative Study. J Appl Gerontol. 2024 J — View Citation

Chary AN, Brickhouse E, Torres B, Santangelo I, Carpenter CR, Liu SW, Godwin KM, Naik AD, Singh H, Kennedy M. Leveraging the Electronic Health Record to Implement Emergency Department Delirium Screening. Appl Clin Inform. 2023 May;14(3):478-486. doi: 10.1 — View Citation

Chary AN, Naik AD, Kennedy M. Reply to: Expanding options to include language barriers for predicting postoperative delirium in geriatric patients. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2023 Jan;71(1):294-295. doi: 10.1111/jgs.18083. Epub 2022 Oct 17. No abstract available. — View Citation

Chary AN, Torres B, Brickhouse E, Santangelo I, Godwin KM, Naik AD, Carpenter CR, Liu SW, Kennedy M. Language discordance in emergency department delirium screening: Results from a qualitative interview-based study. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2023 Apr;71(4):1328-1 — View Citation

Cohen AB, Paiva AL, Redding CA, Fried TR. Characteristics of Older Adults Who Cannot Identify a Healthcare Agent. J Gen Intern Med. 2022 Apr;37(5):1313-1314. doi: 10.1007/s11606-021-06798-2. Epub 2021 Apr 26. No abstract available. — View Citation

Crespo-Ramos G, Bebu I, Krause-Steinrauf H, Hoogendoorn CJ, Fang R, Ehrmann D, Presley C, Naik AD, Katona A, Walker EA, Cherrington A, Gonzalez JS; GRADE Research Group. Emotional distress and cardiovascular disease risk among participants enrolled in the — View Citation

Dindo L, Chaison A, Rodrigues M, Woods K, Mark A, Boykin D. Feasibility of delivering a virtual 1-day acceptance and commitment therapy workshop to rural veterans through community partnerships. Contemp Clin Trials Commun. 2023 Jun 20;34:101178. doi: 10.1 — View Citation

Freytag J, Mishra RK, Street RL Jr, Catic A, Dindo L, Kiefer L, Najafi B, Naik AD. Using Wearable Sensors to Measure Goal Achievement in Older Veterans with Dementia. Sensors (Basel). 2022 Dec 16;22(24):9923. doi: 10.3390/s22249923. — View Citation

Fried TR. Giving up on the objective of providing goal-concordant care: Advance care planning for improving caregiver outcomes. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 Oct;70(10):3006-3011. doi: 10.1111/jgs.18000. Epub 2022 Aug 16. — View Citation

Lee YK, Fried TR, Costello DM, Hajduk AM, O'Leary JR, Cohen AB. Perceived dementia risk and advance care planning among older adults. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 May;70(5):1481-1486. doi: 10.1111/jgs.17721. Epub 2022 Mar 11. — View Citation

Naik AD, Walling AM. Getting patients ready for "in the moment" decisions. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 Sep;70(9):2474-2477. doi: 10.1111/jgs.17935. Epub 2022 Jul 4. No abstract available. — View Citation

Naik AD. Measuring patient-centered care to improve hospital experiences of older adults. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 Dec;70(12):3348-3351. doi: 10.1111/jgs.18048. Epub 2022 Sep 20. No abstract available. — View Citation

Ouellet GM, Fried TR, Gilstrap LG, O'Leary JR, Austin AM, Skinner JS, Cohen AB. Anticoagulant Use for Atrial Fibrillation Among Persons With Advanced Dementia at the End of Life. JAMA Intern Med. 2021 Aug 1;181(8):1121-1123. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.1819. — View Citation

Razjouyan J, Horstman MJ, Orkaby AR, Virani SS, Intrator O, Goyal P, Amos CI, Naik AD. Developing a Parsimonious Frailty Index for Older, Multimorbid Adults With Heart Failure Using Machine Learning. Am J Cardiol. 2023 Mar 1;190:75-81. doi: 10.1016/j.amjc — View Citation

Ritchey KC, Solberg LM, Citty SW, Kiefer L, Martinez E, Gray C, Naik AD. Guiding Post-Hospital Recovery by 'What Matters:' Implementation of Patient Priorities Identification in a VA Community Living Center. Geriatrics (Basel). 2023 Jul 4;8(4):74. doi: 10 — View Citation

Scholle SH, Naik AD. A Person-Centered Care Dashboard for Individuals With Complex Health Care Needs-Charting a Course for the Future. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Aug 1;5(8):e2224945. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.24945. No abstract available. — View Citation

Vaughan EM, Johnson E, Naik AD, Amspoker AB, Balasubramanyam A, Virani SS, Ballantyne CM, Johnston CA, Foreyt JP. Long-Term Effectiveness of the TIME Intervention to Improve Diabetes Outcomes in Low-Income Settings: a 2-Year Follow-Up. J Gen Intern Med. 2 — View Citation

Zang E, Shi Y, Wang X, Wu B, Fried TR. Trajectories of physical functioning among US adults with cognitive impairment. Age Ageing. 2022 Jun 1;51(6):afac139. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afac139. — View Citation

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Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Patient Reported Treatment Burden Measured by the validated Treatment Burden Questionnaire, treatment burden measures perceptions of burdensomeness of overall care and treatment burden (e.g., medication taking, self-monitoring, visits to the provider, tests, tasks to access and coordinate care) imposed by healthcare as assessed with 15 items; possible range, 0-150; Cronbach = 0.90; higher scores indicate greater perceived burden. 4 month follow-up
Primary Home and Community Services Use Home and community based services includes care that supports independence and the ability to stay in one's own home. They are defined by the VA Geriatrics and Extended Care Data Analysis Center (GEC-DAC) as VA Long Term Services and Supports: adult day health care, home based primary care, homemaker and home health aide, hospice care, palliative care, respite care, skilled home health care, home telehealth, and home care services. GEC-DAC has created a composite measure, which is associated with delays in nursing home and institutional long-term care placement. 4 month follow-up
Secondary shared decision making Measured using the CollaboRATE scale (3 items; possible range 0-100; Cronbach = 0.89; higher score indicates greater perceived shared decision-making and goal ascertainment). 4 month follow-up
Secondary Patients' goal setting Will measure patients' perceptions of whether health care decisions were collaborative and focused on their goals using the Older Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (OPACIC) score (11 items; range, 1-5; Cronbach = 0.87; higher scores indicate better perceived chronic disease care). 4 month follow-up
Secondary Ambulatory Care Utilization Medications added or stopped and diagnostic tests, referrals, and procedures ordered or avoided. Measured using a structured chart review tool using our validated process to guide uniform abstraction and classification to a) document specific changes in treatment (i.e., medications, referrals, diagnostics, self-care, services and supports), b) attribute changes to alignment with priorities, and c) identify documentation of any avoided care. 4 month follow-up
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