Quality Report Cards
Conditions
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.
Interventions
OTHERNHCPlus
A decision-aid tool that will interface with Nursing Home Compare and improve consumers' ability to assimilate and incorporate the information into their process of choosing a nursing home.
Sponsors
University of California, Irvine
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE (Subject)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
50 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
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.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed