Care for patients living with chronic conditions using the ICAN Discussion Aid: A mixed methods cluster-randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the effectiveness of the ICAN Discussion Aid in improving patients' experience of receiving care for their chronic conditions and health professionals' experience of providing their care.

Methods

We conducted a pragmatic, mixed-methods, cluster-randomized trial of the ICAN Discussion Aid at 8 clinics in 4 independent health systems in the US from January 2017 and to August 2018. Sites were randomized 1:1 in pairs. Participants were primary care health professionals and their adult patients with ≥1 chronic condition. Quantitative outcomes were health professional assessment of chronic illness care and relational coordination and patient-reported self-efficacy to manage chronic disease, self-efficacy to communicate with clinician, treatment burden, assessm

SUBMITTER: Boehmer KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11616879 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature