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Improving the Quality of Care for Adults With Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Conditions
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Crohn's Disease
Ulcerative Colitis
Registration Number
NCT02791854
Lead Sponsor
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Brief Summary

Innovative programs exist that suggest that care for people with chronic conditions is optimized when patients and providers have the information they need at the point of care and over time, to engage in shared planning and execution of treatment goals and care plans. This project aims to build an Inflammatory Bowel Disease Learning Health System, a shared information environment, that highlights collaboration among patients, clinicians and care team members, and researchers; for effective use of data for guiding care, value, improvement, and research.

Detailed Description

To demonstrate the impact of an Adult Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Learning Health System approach the study collaborators will design, build, implement, and evaluate in up to 90 IBD care sites the the following four key components of the IBD Learning Health System: 1) a Health Information Technology (HIT) environment that can "feed-forward" Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) and clinical data to be used at the point of care and integrated into a registry (IBD Plexus); 2) decision-support dashboards for use by patients and clinicians in real time to coproduce care; 3) meaningful reports for patients and clinicians; and 4) multi-stakeholder collaborative networks for improvement and research.

Prior work from Sweden and the US show that successful uptake of the model can offer important benefits. Patients will be able to use web-based tools to monitor their health and manage their care, securely share data with clinicians in a timely manner, visualize outcomes that matter to them, and compare their results to other people. Clinicians will have new information that can improve their ability to track patient outcomes and costs over time; use PRO data to support pre-visit planning, shared decision-making at the point of care, and post-visit monitoring; and receive comparative performance reports to support quality improvement, public reporting, and professional development. Researchers will benefit by having PROs and cost data added to data registries to support clinical, translational, and comparative effectiveness research.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
10000
Inclusion Criteria
  • 18 years of age or older
  • Diagnosis of Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis or IBD unclassified
  • Accept the terms and conditions of Informed Consent and Authorization
  • Affiliated with a participating IBD Qorus site
Exclusion Criteria
  • Inability to provide informed consent
  • Study key personnel cannot enroll as a study participant

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Number of patients enrolledannually, up to 5 years

count of number of patients consented

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Proportion of patients hospitalizedannually, up to 5 years

assessed by patient report

Proportion of patients with malnutritionannually, up to 5 years

assessed by patient report and labs

Proportion of patients in remissionannually, up to 5 years

assessed using a validated disease activity scale

Proportion of patients with anemiaannually, up to 5 years

assessed by patient report and labs

Proportion of patients admitted into the Emergency Roomannually, up to 5 years

assessed by patient report

Proportion of patients on steroidsannually, up to 5 years

assessed by patient report

Trial Locations

Locations (33)

Atlanta Gastroenterology Associates

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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

University of Chicago Medicine Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center

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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Baylor College of Medicine IBD Center

🇺🇸

Houston, Texas, United States

UC San Diego Health Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center

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San Diego, California, United States

Hoag Digestive Health

🇺🇸

Newport Beach, California, United States

Digestive Care Center

🇺🇸

Evansville, Indiana, United States

University of Rochester

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Rochester, New York, United States

The Oregon Clinic - Gastroenterology

🇺🇸

Portland, Oregon, United States

University of Colorado Health

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Denver, Colorado, United States

Keck Medical Center at University of Southern California Digestive Health Center (USC/Keck)

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Los Angeles, California, United States

Cedars-Sinai Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center

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Los Angeles, California, United States

Gastro Health LLC

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Miami, Florida, United States

MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease

🇺🇸

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Digestive Health Center

🇺🇸

Boise, Idaho, United States

GastroIntestinal Specialists, A.M.C.

🇺🇸

Shreveport, Louisiana, United States

University of Kansas Health System

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Kansas City, Kansas, United States

Corewell Health

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Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center

🇺🇸

Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States

The Henry Ford Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease

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Novi, Michigan, United States

NYU Long Island- Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center

🇺🇸

Mineola, New York, United States

Saratoga Schenectady Gastroenterology Associates

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Burnt Hills, New York, United States

New York University Langone Medical Center

🇺🇸

New York, New York, United States

Gastroenterology Associates

🇺🇸

Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Regional GI

🇺🇸

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States

Gastro One

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Germantown, Tennessee, United States

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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Dallas, Texas, United States

University of Utah Health Care

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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

University of Virginia

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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

Penn State Hershey Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center

🇺🇸

Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States

Weill Cornell Medical College

🇺🇸

New York, New York, United States

University of South Florida

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Tampa, Florida, United States

Yale School of Medicine IBD Program

🇺🇸

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Medical University of South Carolina

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Charleston, South Carolina, United States

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