Clinical trial NCT01532986: Randomized Trial to Test the "Coordinated Care for Health Promotion and Activities in Parkinson's Disease" Intervention in the VA
Official title: Improving Quality of Care in Parkinson's Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Parkinson Disease
Keywords: Quality of Health Care
Nursing Care Management
Care Coordination
Randomized Trials
Lead sponsor: VA Office of Research and Development
Sponsor class: FED
First posted: 2012-02-15
Enrollment: 345
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: Health care benefits and services are received through the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), a component of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. Over 40,000 Veterans across the Veterans Health Administration are diagnosed with Parkinson's disease (PD), a chronic condition that affects motor function as well as cognition, mood, sleep, and autonomic function. There are not enough subspecialists to manage every Veteran with Parkinson's disease. However, a care model of nurse care managers as catalysts and advocates using needs assessments, evidence-based protocols, and VHA and community access coordination mechanisms to optimize Parkinson's disease care may improve quality of Parkinson's disease care and patient-centered outcomes. If efficacious, this model may be practical to disseminate via an existing VHA national consortium network for Parkinson's disease.

Objectives are (1) to implement then analyze via a randomized controlled trial whether a nurse-led, coordinated care management intervention, Care Coordination for Health Promotion and Activities in Parkinson's Disease (CHAPS), compared to usual care will improve adherence to evidence-based practice guidelines and improve health outcomes in Veterans with Parkinson's disease in a region of the southwest United States, and (2) to analyze extent of implementation of the CHAPS intervention and its costs to determine how the intervention can be made sustainable and disseminated throughout Veterans Affairs Medical Centers if efficacious.

Detailed description: In a 5-year randomized controlled trial, we enrolled 345 Veterans with PD that were then randomized in a 1:1 ratio to receive up to 24 months of a PD care management program, "Care Coordination for Health Promotion and Activities in Parkinson's Disease" (CHAPS), or continue with usual care. Eligible participants across 5 sites of the Southwest Parkinson's Disease Research, Education and Clinical Center (SW PADRECC): Greater Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Loma Linda, Long Beach and San Diego VISN 22 (VA Desert Pacific Healthcare Network) facilities were identified through administrative data and vetted by physicians. The multi-faceted nurse-led intervention, CHAPS, incorporated PD quality improvement (QI) tools to enhance proactive Veteran-centered care delivery. PDQI tools included: (1) a structured telephone assessment administered by a nurse care manager (NCM) to proactively identify medical problems and unmet needs; (2) problem-specific evidence-based interventions organized into treatment plans including follow-up/monitoring protocols with VA and community linkages; (3) the Siebens Domain Management ModelTM, a structural approach to improve collection and organization of health information and enrich communication among providers; (4) Siebens Health Care Notebooks prepared with Veteran self-management materials; (5) a Microsoft Access care management database, containing the CHAPS Assessment and algorithms for problem identification based on Veteran data; and (6) decision-support meetings of NCMs with movement disorder specialists. Research interviewers administer a structured telephone survey at baseline, 6, 12, 18, and 24 months. Participants were provided $25 per survey. Medical records were abstracted.

Ongoing analyses (1) measure PD quality indicator adherence, health outcomes, and health service utilization; (2) evaluate qualitative and quantitative data to summarize the extent of intervention implementation and barriers and facilitators to potential dissemination; and (3) examine costs of CHAPS care and cost offset between randomization arms to provide new knowledge to aid in future dissemination of the CHAPS Program in a "National Rollout" according to the VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative QUERI process.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Veteran of the United States of America
* Receiving health care at one of five Veterans Health Administration medical centers in the southwest United States: Greater Los Angeles, Loma Linda, Long Beach, or San Diego, California, or Las Vegas, Nevada.
* Diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD)
* At least two ICD-9 diagnostic codes for PD (332.0) in the administrative data from October 1, 2010 - to present date or until recruitment target is met
* At least 18 years of age
* Must demonstrate capacity to provide consent for study participation.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Any Veteran who is a study subject in the Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) VA cooperative study as these subjects are not to enroll in any other study per DBS study protocol.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Proportion of Measures Adhered To in the PD Guidelines
timeFrame: 18 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Health Utilities Index (HUI3)
timeFrame: 18 months
measure: Activities of Daily Living (ADL), (Speech and Swallowing Only)
timeFrame: 18 months
measure: Medical Outcomes Study (MOS)
timeFrame: 18 months
measure: General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES)
timeFrame: 18 months
measure: Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS)
timeFrame: 18 months
measure: Patient Assessement of Care for Chronic Conditions (PACIC)
timeFrame: 18 months
measure: World Health Organization Well-Being Index (WHO-5)
timeFrame: 18 months
measure: Percentage With a Patient Healthcare Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2) Score ≥ 3
timeFrame: 18 months
measure: Patient Healthcare Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9)
timeFrame: 18 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Loma Linda
country: United States
facility: VA Loma Linda Healthcare System, Loma Linda, CA
state: California
city: Long Beach
country: United States
facility: VA Long Beach Healthcare System, Long Beach, CA
state: California
city: San Diego
country: United States
facility: VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA
state: California
city: West Los Angeles
country: United States
facility: VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA
state: California
city: Las Vegas
country: United States
facility: VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System, North Las Vegas, NV
state: Nevada
Study officials:
affiliation: VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA
name: Karen Connor, PhD RN MBA
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Connor K, Cheng E, Siebens HC, Lee ML, Mittman BS, Ganz DA, Vickrey B. Study protocol of "CHAPS": a randomized controlled trial protocol of Care Coordination for Health Promotion and Activities in Parkinson's Disease to improve the quality of care for individuals with Parkinson's disease. BMC Neurol. 2015 Dec 15;15:258. doi: 10.1186/s12883-015-0506-y.
citation: Connor KI, Siebens HC, Mittman BS, Ganz DA, Barry F, McNeese-Smith DK, Cheng EM, Vickrey BG. Implementation fidelity of a nurse-led RCT-tested complex intervention, care coordination for health promotion and activities in Parkinson's disease (CHAPS) in meeting challenges in care management. BMC Neurol. 2022 Jan 24;22(1):36. doi: 10.1186/s12883-021-02481-5.
citation: Connor KI, Siebens HC, Mittman BS, McNeese-Smith DK, Ganz DA, Barry F, Edwards LK, McGowan MG, Cheng EM, Vickrey BG. Stakeholder perceptions of components of a Parkinson disease care management intervention, care coordination for health promotion and activities in Parkinson's disease (CHAPS). BMC Neurol. 2020 Dec 2;20(1):437. doi: 10.1186/s12883-020-02011-9.
citation: Connor KI, Siebens HC, Mittman BS, Ganz DA, Barry F, Ernst EJ, Edwards LK, McGowan MG, McNeese-Smith DK, Cheng EM, Vickrey BG. Quality and extent of implementation of a nurse-led care management intervention: care coordination for health promotion and activities in Parkinson's disease (CHAPS). BMC Health Serv Res. 2020 Aug 10;20(1):732. doi: 10.1186/s12913-020-05594-8.
citation: Connor KI, Cheng EM, Barry F, Siebens HC, Lee ML, Ganz DA, Mittman BS, Connor MK, Edwards LK, McGowan MG, Vickrey BG. Randomized trial of care management to improve Parkinson disease care quality. Neurology. 2019 Apr 16;92(16):e1831-e1842. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000007324. Epub 2019 Mar 22.