Functional Assessment Screening Tablets - Patient Reported Measures

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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The team's ultimate goal is to improve health care quality and effectiveness and support patient-centered care. In this project, we, the investigators, will test whether providing patients with guideline based-recommendations regarding tobacco use, physical activity and mental and physical health-related quality of life (patient reported measures: PRMs) using health information technology increases doctor-patient discussions regarding these topics and results in improvements in PRMs. We will randomize physicians in a single general internal medicine practice. Patients seeing intervention physicians will receive guideline-based recommendations regarding PRMs, those seeing control physicians will not. We will compare differences in doctor-patient discussions regarding PRMs between the intervention and control groups. The successful completion of this project will provide evidence the effectiveness of involving patients in their care through the use guideline-based feedback.

Official Title
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Functional Assessment Screening Tablets - Patient Reported Measures Translating Research Into Practice Pilot

Conditions
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Smoking

Intervention / Treatment
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* Other: Patient feedback form


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: physicians who see patients in the University of Pittsburgh General Internal Medicine Practice. patients of physician's who have consented to participate. Exclusion Criteria: age less than 18.

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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No

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: Feedback form<br>patients receive feedback regarding their prms in addition to doctor receiving report | Other: Patient feedback form<br>* patients receive a report that feeds back their patient reported measures to them prior to their clinical visit<br>|
| No Intervention: usual care<br>patients do not receive feedback form prior to the encounter, clinicians continue to receive patient reported measures prior to the appointment | |

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Doctor Patient Communication | the doctor patient and encounter will be queried for communication regarding the patient reported measures | The doctor and patient pair will complete a one time survey within two weeks of the doctor patient encounter. Audiotaping of the encounter will occur once at the time of encounter. | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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Health-related quality of life, physical activity