The Effect of Clinic Visit Audio Recordings for Self-management in Older Adults

Running, not enrolling · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Diabetes

In brief

The objective of this study is to conduct a multisite trial evaluating the impact of adding an audio recording of clinic visits (AUDIO) to usual care in older adults with multimorbidity, including diabetes, compared to After Visit Summary (AVS) alone (Usual Care; UC).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05824572

Run by

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

People needed

336

Starts

2023-12-01

Expected to finish

2027-12-31

Last updated by the study team

2026-08-07

Who can join

Age: 65 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients who are ≥ 65 years;
• Patients with multimorbidity (i.e. patient has diabetes and one or more chronic conditions including: arthritis, asthma, atrial fibrillation, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart disease, depression, heart failure, hypertension, osteoporosis, kidney disease and stroke);
• Have had two or more clinic visits in the previous 12 months;
• Plan on receiving ongoing care at the clinic for the subsequent 12 months;
• Do not have any vision or hearing problems that cannot be corrected;
• Have not recorded a clinic visit for personal use i the past 6 months.

You may not qualify if…

• Without capacity to consent to the project;
• With schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, substance-use disorders, uncorrectable hearing or visual impairment or a six item screener (SIS) cognitive function score ≤ 4;
• Living in skilled nursing homes or hospice;
• Patients who have audio- recorded a clinic visit for their personal use in the previous six months;
• Patients who do not speak English or Spanish;
• Patients who lack internet access;
• Patients who (a) do not have access to a personal email, (b) do not have an email address shared with a family member or patient-identified caregiver, and (c) are not interested in creating an email account between the time they are first contacted by the study team to the time that the study team requires an email address to initiate the online recording software registration.
• Clinician participants:
• Inclusion criteria:
• Licensed clinician (MD including clinician residents at Dartmouth Health locations, DO, APRN, NP, PA)
• Are based at the study clinic;
• Who treat adult patients.
• Exclusion criteria:
• Are trainees, e.g., fellows, medical students or residents, with the exception of clinician residents at Dartmouth Health;
• Commonly audio or video record clinic visits for patient's personal use.

Where it is running

• Dartmouth-Hitchcook Manchester — Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
• Vanderbit University Medical Center — Nashville, Tennessee, United States
• University of Texas Medical Branch — Galveston, Texas, United States

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