Home-Based Palliative Care Impact on Providers

Palliative Care Clinical Trial

Official title:

Investigating the Impact of Person-Centered Home-Based Palliative Care on Providers

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06140004
• Other study ID #: HS-17-00279
• Secondary ID: 1K99AG052647-015
• Status: Completed
• Start date: September 15, 2016
• Est. completion date: October 31, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: November 2023
• Source: University of Southern California
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

This research challenges our current approach to fee-for-service palliative care and is significant because it will advance the fields of palliative and person-centered care, clinical practice, public policy, and health care financing. However, the most important effect will be on seriously ill patients and their families through increased access to palliative care outside of hospitals, enhanced palliative continuity across health settings, and improved affordability via reformed payment structures. Nation-wide replication of reimbursable HBCP models is anticipated.

Description:

This study will undertake an effort to address the two-pronged gap in providing palliative care in the U.S. (episodic care and misaligned financing structures). This will be done by implementing an evidence-based Home-Based Palliative Care (HBPC) model-originally developed in managed care-into primary fee-for-service as a covered health benefit; the very first translation of this model by a private health insurer in the U.S. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the provider and organizational-level impact of implementing reimbursable HBPC in primary care with the goal of characterizing a set of implementation strategies and eliciting key mechanisms on how to widely replicate person-centered, reimbursable HBPC in primary care settings across the country. To this end, seven research questions will be answered that address the study purpose pertaining to feasibility, barriers, facilitators, person-centeredness, and job satisfaction. This study is guided by the Diffusion of Innovations theory. The investigators will conduct primary collection and analysis of qualitative focus group data at each study site. Key outcomes for the qualitative component include feasibility, barriers, and facilitators of translating HBPC, as well as characteristics associated with rate of HBPC diffusion and implementation strategies. This project challenges our current approach to fee-for-service palliative care and seeks to shift current research. Nation-wide replication of reimbursable HBCP models is anticipated.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 24
• Est. completion date: October 31, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: June 27, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Current member of the Home-Based Palliative Care (HBPC) team or organization's leadership team

Exclusion Criteria:

• No interaction with palliative care patients or palliative care arm of organization
• Unable to speak and read English

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Health Personnel
• Palliative Care

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	By the Bay Health	Larkspur	California
United States	Snowline Hospice	Sacramento	California
United States	HavenHealth	Signal Hill	California

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Southern California	National Institute on Aging (NIA)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Confidence in Team	Self-reported rating of confidence in HBPC team to implement the intervention as stated, on a scale of 1-10 (1=not confident at all; 10=extremely confident)	12-months
Secondary	Confidence in Self	Self-reported rating of confidence in self to implement the intervention as stated, on a scale of 1-10 (1=not confident at all; 10=extremely confident)	12-months