A Comparative Effectiveness Trial of Optimal Patient-Centered Care

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Conditions studied: Post Traumatic Concerns, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Depression and Suicide Ideation, Alcohol and Drug Use

In brief

The nation's trauma care system, which includes trauma center hospitals \& emergency departments, is where over 30 million Americans receive care after traumatic injuries each year. Injury victims are diverse patients who suffer from complications of the initial injury as well as from multiple complex medical \& mental health conditions. Currently, high-quality patient-centered care is not the standard of care throughout US trauma care systems. Injured trauma survivors treated in trauma care systems frequently receive fragmented care that is not coordinated across hospital, emergency department, outpatient, \& community settings. Post-injury care is frequently not individualized to integrate the patient's most pressing post-traumatic concerns \& preferences into medical decision making. The investigators, as a group of front-line trauma center providers, patients, researchers \& policy makers, have been working together for over a decade to integrate patient-centered care into US trauma care systems. The investigators began this work by asking groups of injured patients the key patient-centered question: "Of everything that has happened to you since your injury, what concerns you the most?" The investigators developed scientifically sound assessment tools that allowed us to follow patient concerns after injury hospitalization. In May of 2011, the investigators convened an American College of Surgeons' policy summit that addressed mental health \& patient-centered care integration across US trauma care systems. As part of this policy summit, patient members of our team presented their experiences of traumatic injury \& recovery. While giving injured patients a "voice" at the summit, these narratives did not move surgical policy makers to develop mandates or guidelines for patient-centered care. In contrast, presentations that included information from randomized comparative effectiveness trials \& standardized outcome assessments convinced surgical policy makers to develop US trauma care system policy mandates \& best practice guidelines for post-traumatic stress disorder \& alcohol use problems. Our team now realizes that in order to optimally integrate patient-centered care into US trauma care systems, the investigators must use the best scientific methods that capture the highest-quality data. This PCORI proposal aims to demonstrate that a patient-centered care management treatment that addresses patient's post-injury concerns \& integrates patient concerns \& preferences into medical decision making, while also coordinating care, can improve outcomes of great importance to patients \& their caregivers, front-line providers \& policy makers. This proposal directly addresses two PCORI patient-centered research questions: "After a traumatic injury, what can I do to improve the outcomes that are most important to me?" \& "How can front-line providers working in trauma care systems help me make the best decisions about my post-injury health \& health care?"

Key facts

Study ID
NCT02274688
Run by
University of Washington
People needed
171
Starts
2014-03-01
Expected to finish
2016-12-31
Last updated by the study team
2017-11-21

Who can join

Age: 14 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

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Where it is running

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