Health Information Technology, Nurse Based Care Management
Conditions
Keywords
Care coordination, primary care, nurse care management, practice facilitation
Brief summary
Cluster randomized controlled trial comparing care coordination incentives to pay for performance (quality measure) incentives in clinics on utilization, cost, quality, and patient experience.
Interventions
Research involving materials (data, documents, records, or specimens) that have been collected, or will be collected, solely for non-research purposes (such as medical treatment or diagnosis).
Research involving materials (data, documents, records, or specimens) that have been collected, or will be collected, solely for non-research purposes (such as medical treatment or diagnosis).
Sponsors
Study design
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
* Six Clinics participating whom Care Management Plus team has worked with before * Patients belonging to one of these six clinics * Picked based on an algorithm designed to identify high risk patients. * Clinic will review potential patients list and issue a survey with consent form
Exclusion criteria
* Younger than 18 * Older than 90
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Rate of Utilization | up to 18 months | Utilization includes Emergency Department visits and hospitalizations for this high risk group. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Patient Satisfaction/Experience | 0, 18 months | Patient Assessment of Care for Chronic Conditions (PACIC; Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems |
| Reduce Costs | 0, 12, 18 months | Costs will be aggregated and compared across groups |
| Improve quality of care | 0,3,6,9,12,15,18 months | 5 pre-validated quality measures will be aggregated and compared across groups. |
Countries
United States