Role of Social Incentives in PRO Collection

Sponsor

Duke University (Other)

Overall Status

Completed

CT.gov ID

NCT03436446

Collaborator

(none)

Enrollment

Location

3.4

Actual Duration (Months)

2.3

Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

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.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Orthopedic Disorder	Other: Interview

Study Design

Study Type:

Observational

Actual Enrollment :

8 participants

Observational Model:

Cohort

Time Perspective:

Prospective

Official Title:

Using Social Incentives to Increase Response Rate to Routine Patient Reported Outcome Measurement After Episodic Healthcare Interventions

Actual Study Start Date :

Feb 8, 2018

Actual Primary Completion Date :

May 24, 2018

Actual Study Completion Date :

May 24, 2018

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
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 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.

Arm

Intervention/Treatment

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

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.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Interview feedback [End of discussion with patient, 15 minutes]
The investigators will use feedback from the interviews to adjust the social incentives.

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:

18 Years to 80 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

Inclusion Criteria:

English speaking
Orthopedic patient
6-24 months post-operative

Exclusion Criteria:

Non-English speaking

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Duke University Health System	Durham	North Carolina	United States	27710

Sponsors and Collaborators

Duke University

Investigators

Principal Investigator: Richard C Mather III, MD, MBA, Duke University

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

Responsible Party:

Duke University

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:

NCT03436446

Other Study ID Numbers:

Pro00086277

First Posted:

Feb 19, 2018

Last Update Posted:

Dec 17, 2019

Last Verified:

May 1, 2019

Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:

Plan to Share IPD:

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product:

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product:

Keywords provided by Duke University

Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO)

Social Incentives

Additional relevant MeSH terms:

Musculoskeletal Diseases

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Dec 17, 2019