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Comparing Healthcare Visit Recording and Open Notes to Improve Chronic iLlness Care Experience in Older Adults
NCT05955339 · Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
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Official title
Comparing Healthcare Visit Recording and Open Notes to Improve the Chronic Illness Care Experience for Older Adults (The CHRONICLE Trial)
About this study
The research team is working with primary care clinics at three health systems across the country to enroll adults ages 65 and older who are managing diabetes or high blood pressure, plus one other disease. The team is assigning patients by chance to one of two groups. Each group will have an equal numbers of patients. Patients in one group will get access to visit notes through the patient portal. The research team will give patients guidance on how to find and use their visit notes. Patients in the other group will not only have access to their visit notes patients but also get access to audio-recordings of their visits. After each visit, patients in both groups will receive emails to review their visit information: 1) two days after their visit to remind them of their visit discussion and any tasks they may have, and 2) three days before their next visit, they will be asked to think of any changes from their last visit and to make a list of three things they want to talk to their doctor about. The team is comparing changes reported by patients over six months in quality of life, satisfaction, self-management ability, treatment adherence, and visit communication. The team will also invite caregivers identified by patients to join the project. They will show patients how to share their visit notes or recordings with caregivers. Caregivers will report on changes in how prepared they feel to provide care, burden related to caregiving, and how much they felt part of the patient's visit conversation.
Eligibility criteria
PATIENTS:
Inclusion Criteria:
* ≥ 65 years;
* With multimorbidity (diabetes or hypertension plus one of the following: arthritis (osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis), asthma, atrial fibrillation, Alzheimer's disease and related dementia (not severe), cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, depression, heart disease, heart failure, hyperlipidemia, osteoporosis, kidney disease and stroke. Patients with diabetes plus hypertension are eligible.
* Have had two or more clinic visits in the previous 12 months;
* Plan on receiving ongoing care at the clinic with the enrolled clinician for the subsequent 6 months;
* Do not have vision or hearing problems that cannot be corrected; and
* Have not recorded a clinic visit for personal use in the past 6 months
Exclusion Criteria:
* With no capacity to consent to the project;
* With schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, current substance-use disorders, uncorrected hearing or visual impairment;
* Living in skilled nursing homes or hospice, because they engage less in self-management;
* With cognitive impairment as identified by a score of ≤3 on the six-item screener (SIS)
* Lacking internet access;
* Who do not speak English or Spanish;
* Who (i) do not have access to a personal email, (ii) do not have an email address shared with a family member or patient-identified caregiver, and/or (iii) are not interested in creating a personal email as this would prevent them from engaging with the intervention(s); and
* Who do not wish to create a patient portal account, if they do not already have one as this would prevent them from engaging with the intervention(s).
CAREGIVERS:
Inclusion criteria:
* Agree to their identified role as a caregiver;
* Speak English or Spanish;
* Have capacity to consent to research participation; and
* ≥ 18 years.
Exclusion criteria:
* No capacity to consent to the project;
* Living in skilled nursing homes or hospice;
* Lacking internet access; or
* Do not speak English or Spanish
Study design
Enrollment target: 1200 participants
Allocation: randomized
Masking: none
Age groups: adult, older_adult
Timeline
Starts: 2024-01-24
Estimated completion: 2027-06-14
Last updated: 2025-04-03
Interventions
Other: NOTESOther: AUDIO
Primary outcomes
- • Quality of Life - Mental functioning (6 months from enrollment)
- • Quality of Life - Physical functioning (6 months from enrollment)
Sponsor
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center · other
With: The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
Contacts & investigators
ContactPaul J Barr, PhD · contact · paul.j.barr@dartmouth.edu · 603-646-7016
ContactRenata W. Yen, PhD · contact · renata.west.yen@dartmouth.edu · 603-646-5670
InvestigatorPaul J Barr, PhD · principal_investigator, Dartmouth College
InvestigatorKerri L Cavanaugh, MD · principal_investigator, Vanderbilit University Medical Center
InvestigatorMeredith C Masel, PhD · principal_investigator, University Texas Medical Branch
All locations (3)
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics ManchesterRecruiting
Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
Vanderbit University Medical CenterRecruiting
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
University of Texas Medical BranchNot Yet Recruiting
Galveston, Texas, United States