Role of Social Incentives in PRO Collection

NCT ID: NCT03436446

Last Updated: 2019-12-17

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 8 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2018-02-08
• Study Completion Date: 2018-05-24

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

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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.

Interview

Intervention Type: 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.

Interventions

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.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• English speaking
• Orthopedic patient
• 6-24 months post-operative

Exclusion Criteria

• Non-English speaking

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 80 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Duke University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Richard C Mather III, MD, MBA

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Duke University

Locations

Duke University Health System

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

Pro00086277

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id