Role of Social Incentives in PRO Collection

NCT03436446 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: Pro00086277
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 8
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Value-based healthcare is heavily dependent on the accurate measurement of patient outcomes, both immediately after treatment and at long-term intervals. Patient reported outcomes (PROs) are often the central component of any quality improvement process as they are patient centered, reflect the ultimate objective of the intervention and are endorsed by many professional societies as the preferred physician performance metric. Although high response rates are critical to producing reliable data to support value-based payment models, quality improvement, and stakeholder transparency - especially in arthroscopy in which patients often fare well over time and may be less likely to continue with follow-up - response rates to outcome surveys after initial recovery from treatment are consistently below 50%. Monetary incentives offer only minor improvements in response rates against large increases in already rising costs. Individually tailored social incentives - as grounded in current behavioral economic practice - offer a potential cost-effective solution to this problem in Sports Medicine and arthroscopy. The investigators predict that well-constructed, personal social incentives will increase response rates for long-term follow-up of episodic care compared to control. The investigators predict these rates will vary depending on the patient demographics and other characteristics.

Conditions

Orthopedic Disorder

Keywords

Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO); Social Incentives

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Interview feedback

  The investigators will use feedback from the interviews to adjust the social incentives.

  End of discussion with patient, 15 minutes

Study Arms (1)

Orthopedic Patients

Orthopedic patients will undergo an interview with the research team regarding the framing of various social incentives to promote increased response rates for patient reported outcome measures post-operatively.

Other: Interview

Interventions

Interview OTHER

Interviews will be conducted with orthopedic patients to review the construction and phrasing of various social incentives aimed at promoting patient reported outcome collection amongst post-operative patients.

Orthopedic Patients

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 80 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

The study population will include post-operative orthopedic patients.

You may qualify if:

• English speaking
• Orthopedic patient
• months post-operative

You may not qualify if:

• Non-English speaking

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Duke University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Duke University Health System

Durham, North Carolina, 27710, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Musculoskeletal Diseases

Interventions

Interviews as Topic

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Data Collection; Epidemiologic Methods; Investigative Techniques; Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms; Quality of Health Care; Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation; Public Health; Environment and Public Health

Study Officials

• Richard C Mather III, MD, MBA

  Duke University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 12, 2018
• First Posted: February 19, 2018
• Study Start: February 8, 2018
• Primary Completion: May 24, 2018
• Study Completion: May 24, 2018
• Last Updated: December 17, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)