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Implementing PROMs and PREMs in Routine Clinical Care: Assessment of Requirements and Impact
Sponsor: Parc de Salut Mar
Summary
There has been increasing interest in the use of patient-reported outcomes and experience measures (PROMs and PREMs) in clinical practice; yet few empirical studies have been conducted to evaluate the usefulness of such implementation. Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of the implementation of PROMs and PREMs in routine clinical care for improving health outcomes and satisfaction with health management. Design: Randomized control trial. Setting: In and outpatient departments of a public hospital in Spain. Participants: 1,440 adult patients managed for breast cancer, prostate cancer, chronic kidney disease, or bariatric surgery. Intervention: Patients will monthly complete, through an App from their smartphones, PROMs and PREMs (arm A, n=480), or only PREMs (arm B, n=480). Responses to PROMs will be transformed into a graphic summary, accessible for physicians and patients at the follow-up visits of the project (9 and 18 months after recruitment). Main outcome measures: Comparison of change among arms on the assessment variables - such as health-related quality of life (EQ-5D-5L), satisfaction with care, or patient-professionals communication. These constructs will be measured at recruitment and at follow up visits for all patients, regardless of their arm allocation (arm C would only be administered these questionnaires, without intervention, n=480). Expected results: Incorporating PROMs and PREMs in routine clinical care may improve patients\' and health professionals\' experiences on health care, as well as improve patients\' health.
Official title: Implementing PROMs and PREMs in Routine Clinical Care: Assessment of Requirements and Impact.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
1440
Start Date
2023-10-25
Completion Date
2027-10
Last Updated
2024-02-22
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
PROMs and PREMs
Participants are administered PROMs and PREMs at a given timeline adequate to each participant conditions for a duration of 2 years. The administration of PROMs is done by email using the REDCap platform. The research team and health care professionals have access to their patient\'s results to aid in the patients clinical care. Participants are administered a PREM once a year for two years. Only health care administrators, department heads and researchers will have access to the PREMs data, and this data will always be aggregated data to avoid identification of the patients. The administration of the PREM is done by email using the REDCap platform. At recruitment and once a year, participants answer an evaluation questionnaire to measure the impact of completing PROMs and PREMs. This questionnaire is completed during a clinic visit.
PREMs
Participants are administered a PREM once a year for two years. Only health care administrators, department heads and researchers will have access to the PREMs data, and this data will always be aggregated data to avoid identification of the patients. The administration of the PREM is done by email using the REDCap platform. At recruitment and once a year, participants answer an evaluation questionnaire to measure the impact of completing PROMs and PREMs. This questionnaire is completed during a clinic visit.
Control
At recruitment and once a year, participants answer an evaluation questionnaire to measure the impact of completing PROMs and PREMs. This questionnaire is completed during a clinic visit.
Healthcare professionals
Healthcare professionals participating in the study answer an evaluation questionnaire before the implementation starts at their service and two years later to measure their perceptions about the implementation.
Locations (1)
Hospital del Mar Reseach Institute
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain