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Patient Priority Care for Older Adults With Multiple Chronic Conditions Achieved Through Primary and Specialty Care Alignment
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Patient Priorities Care for Multiple Chronic Conditions. Completed, enrolled 264 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
Healthcare for older adults with multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) is burdensome and of uncertain benefit, resulting in unwanted and unhelpful care. Patient Priorities Care (PPC) aligns care with patients' health priorities (i.e. the health outcomes most desired given the healthcare each is willing and able to receive). The aim of this project is to test, using a parallel group design involving 2 matched primary care sites, whether PPC decreases patient treatment burden and unwanted and unnecessary health care as well as assess what the value of this program is for patients.
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Interventions
Patient Priorities Care (PPC) is an innovative approach to shared decision-making that draws from existing professional training. PPC requires the elicitation and documentation of patient health outcome goals and care preferences and the alignment of clinical care with health goals and healthcare preferences. This information will be collected and documented in the EHR by facilitators and shared with the clinicians who will then use the PPC approach with patients to inform and guide treatment decisions. The PCPs will be trained in decisional strategies that have been shown to help align care with patients' health priorities. While encouraged to use these decisional strategies, PCPs will be free to make the recommendations they feel most appropriate for each patient. This intervention has been developed to be integrated seamlessly into usual care.