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NCT Number: NCT02738320

Patient Centered Quality Reporting

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Quality Report Cards

Age range

50 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

University of California

Irvine, California, 92697, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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.

Treatment and study plan

NHCPlus

Other

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.

Primary outcomes

  1. Use of Nursing Home Compare information

    Time frame: up to 9 days post discharge

    Patients (or their families) self report their knowledge and use of the information in Nursing Home Compare.

  2. Quality Measures of chosen nursing home

    Time frame: up to 9 days post-discharge

    Quality measures obtained from the Nursing Home Compare web based report card

  3. Distance between patient/family residence and the chosen nursing home.

    Time frame: up to 9 days post-discharge

    Driving distance between the patient zip code and the chosen nursing home zip code using Google maps.

  4. Length of stay in hospital

    Time frame: between 1 and 68 days

    Number of days between admission date and discharge date

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of California, Irvine

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2014
Primary completion
2015
Study completion
2015
First posted
Apr 14, 2016
Registry last updated
Apr 14, 2016

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.