Patient Centered Quality Reporting

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Quality Report Cards
• Interventions: Other: NHCPlus

• Registration Number: NCT02738320
• Lead Sponsor: University of California, Irvine

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2014-03
• Primary Completion: 2015-09
• Study Completion: 2015-11
• Status Verified: 2016-04
• Study First Submitted: 2016-04-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-04-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-04-08
• Study First Posted: 2016-04-14
• Last Update Posted: 2016-04-14

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 225

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.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

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

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Use of Nursing Home Compare information	up to 9 days post discharge	Patients (or their families) self report their knowledge and use of the information in Nursing Home Compare.
Quality Measures of chosen nursing home	up to 9 days post-discharge	Quality measures obtained from the Nursing Home Compare web based report card
Distance between patient/family residence and the chosen nursing home.	up to 9 days post-discharge	Driving distance between the patient zip code and the chosen nursing home zip code using Google maps.
Length of stay in hospital	between 1 and 68 days	Number of days between admission date and discharge date

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of California; 🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States