Patient-centered outcomes research

Grand Rounds November 19: Exploring Approaches in Using Digital and Mobile Health in Patient-oriented Research: Pearls and Pitfalls

Speaker:
Anish K. Agarwal MD, MPH MS
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Clinical Innovation Manager, Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation
University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine

Topic: Exploring Approaches in Using Digital and Mobile Health in Patient-oriented Research: Pearls and Pitfalls

Date: Friday, November 19, 2021, 1:00-2:00 p.m. ET

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Grand Rounds September 17: Population-based Outreach to Prevent Suicidal Behavior: A Pragmatic Randomized Trial

Speakers:
Gregory Simon, MD, MPH
Senior Investigator
Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute

Susan M Shortreed, PhD
Senior Investigator, Biostatistics Unit
Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
Affiliate Professor, Department of Biostatistics
University of Washington

Topic: Population-based Outreach to Prevent Suicidal Behavior: A Pragmatic Randomized Trial
Date: Friday, September 17, 2021, 1:00-2:00 p.m. ET

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Grand Rounds August 13: Got anything for this cough? Outpatient Treatment Trials in the Time of COVID

Speaker:
Davey Smith, MD
Protocol Co-Chair ACTIV-2
Professor of Medicine, UC San Diego

Topic: Got anything for this cough? Outpatient Treatment Trials in the Time of COVID
Date: Friday, August 13, 2021, 1:00-2:00 p.m. ET

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November 15, 2019: PCORnet: Health Plan Research Network Data Linkage and Patient Engagement with Patient-Powered Research Networks (Kevin Haynes, PharmD, MSCE)

Posted on by Gina Uhlenbrauck

Speaker

Kevin Haynes, PharmD, MSCE
Principal Scientist
HealthCore

Topic

PCORnet: Health Plan Research Network Data Linkage and Patient Engagement with Patient-Powered Research Networks

Keywords

Data linkages; PCORnet; Patient-powered research networks; Health plan research networks; Computable phenotypes

Key Points

  • One of the biggest challenges facing healthcare today is reducing gaps in evidence necessary to improve health outcomes. Research collaborations between health plans and patient-powered research networks (PPRNs) can help close this gap.
  • PCORnet enables linkages with patient groups through PPRNs, which include participating organizations and leadership teams of patients, advocacy groups, clinicians, academic centers, and practice-based research networks.
  • From the health plan perspective, postal mail outreach to members was more effective than email outreach around engaging patients in research opportunities.

Discussion Themes

When engaging with different patient-powered research networks, are there differences around common conditions compared with rare or stigmatized conditions?

What are participants told about the commercialization of findings, whether in terms of new treatments that might be identified, or the ways in which findings might affect health plans’ willingness to continue to cover certain treatments?

An essential aspect of collaboration is building and maintaining the trust of members in the research networks.

Read more about collaborations between PPRNs and health plans in a recent JAMIA publication and the PCORnet website.

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#pctGR, @Collaboratory1, @KHaynes001

February 1, 2019: Promoting Effective Advance Care Planning Communication in the Elderly: The ACP-PEACE Trial (James Tulsky, MD, Angelo Volandes, MD, MPH)

Posted on by Gina Uhlenbrauck

Speakers

James Tulsky, MD
Chair, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of Palliative Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Angelo Volandes, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Topic

Promoting Effective Advance Care Planning Communication in the Elderly: The ACP-PEACE Trial

Keywords

Pragmatic clinical trial; Advance care planning; ACP PEACE; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; National Institute on Aging; Palliative care; Video declarations; Goal-concordant care; Patient preferences

Key Points

  • Many people with serious illness die without receiving goal-concordant care, and patients over the age of 65 with cancer experience this disproportionately. Helping patients engage in advance care planning (ACP) can empower them to express and record their goals so that their care can be aligned with their preferences.
  • The ACP PEACE NIH Collaboratory Trial is a pragmatic, stepped-wedge, randomized trial of a comprehensive ACP program in oncology clinics at 3 health systems. It will involve a combination of 2 evidence-based programs:
    • VitalTalk teaches clinicians important communication skills in having empathic conversations with seriously ill patients.
    • ACP Decisions uses videos to promote planning and decision-making by patients and families.
  • The ACP PEACE study will monitor long-term outcomes to evaluate whether patients received the care they planned for and wanted.

Discussion Themes

The last element of the ACP PEACE trial is a video declaration (ViDec), recorded by a subset of patients. In recording the ViDec, patients are prompted by questions assessing their confidence with their decision, satisfaction, decisional regret, and patient-provider experience.

The ACP PEACE study team has a scaling strategy in place if the intervention proves effective. Implementing the intervention as standard of care will involve a culture shift from what is currently expected in health systems.

Read more about the ACP PEACE NIH Collaboratory Trial in the Living Textbook.

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#AdvanceCarePlanning, #pctGR, @Collaboratory1 @VitalTalk, @ACPDecisions

January 11, 2019: FDA Releases Framework for Evaluating the Use of Real-World Evidence

Posted on by Karen Staman

To help fulfill the requirements of the 21st Century Cures Act by accelerating medical product development and fostering innovation and advances in medicine, FDA recently created a framework for evaluating the use of real-world evidence. The framework is intended to help evaluate trials that use real-world data for the creation of real-world evidence.

  • Real-world data: routinely collected information about a person’s health status in the electronic health record, claims, registries, and other sources, including patient-generated sources.
  • Real-world evidence: reliable, clinical information derived from real-world data about risks, benefits, and burdens of therapies.

This framework will apply to various pragmatic clinical trials embedded in health care systems and conducted as part of routine care (and will not apply to more traditional clinical trials conducted parallel to care).

Three main considerations are included in the framework:

  1. Will the real-world data be fit for use (do they reliably and adequately represent the concept)?
  2. Will the evidence generated by the trial provide adequate evidence to help answer regulatory questions?
  3. Will the conduct of the study meet FDA regulatory requirements?

October 9, 2018: New Recommendations for Engaging Patients in Roles Other Than as Research Subjects

Posted on by Karen Staman

A panel funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) recently published recommendations for the oversight of patients who participate in research roles other than as “research subject.” Patients and caregivers participate in many roles, such as co-investigators, study personnel, and advisors in research studies, and this creates novel ethical and regulatory challenges. The panel provides a taxonomy for these roles and recommendations for appropriate oversight. The group also provides recommendations about identifying and engaging a diverse mix of patients and developing mechanisms to protect against possible conflicts of interest. Finally, given the ubiquity of mobile health and other emerging technologies for use by patients, the recommendations provide guidance about the inclusion of these technologies in patient-centered outcomes research, with specific attention to education, best practices, and appropriate privacy protections.

In an accompanying editorial, Dr. Robert Califf expressed his support for the panel’s efforts and their taxonomy for patients in patient-centered outcomes research:

“Given the persistent gap between the slow pace of research and the pressing need for high-quality evidence to guide practice in areas of clinical uncertainty on one hand, and the potential offered by more pragmatic, people-centered research methods on the other, we need positive approaches for making learning through research a routine part of clinical care rather than an exceptional event.”

 

August 28, 2018: ADAPTABLE Patient-Reported Health Data Codes Now Available

Posted on by Karen Staman

The ADAPTABLE pragmatic trial relies on patients to report key information at baseline and throughout follow-up. To capture these data, ADAPTABLE investigators developed a LOINC (Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes) patient-reported item set, which is now publicly available.

The development of the item set is part of the ADAPTABLE Supplement, an initiative funded by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation to develop best practices for capturing patient-reported outcome data and optimal analytic approaches for using the data in a pragmatic clinical trial. Additional reference material can be found in the ADAPTABLE Supplement Roundtable Meeting summary, in a report describing the results of a literature review of data standards and metadata standards for variables of interest, and on GitHub. The project is expected to inform future efforts to integrate patient-reported data in the electronic health record and provide opportunities to streamline data for use in pragmatic trials. Information from the project is being added to the Living Textbook as it accumulates; learn more in the chapters on Using Electronic Health Record Data and Choosing and Specifying End Points and Outcomes.

ADAPTABLE (Aspirin Dosing: A Patient-Centric Trial Assessing Benefits and Long-Term Effectiveness) aims to identify the optimal dose of aspirin therapy for secondary prevention in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and is the first major randomized comparative effectiveness trial to be conducted by the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network (PCORnet).

March 15, 2018: New Resource for Understanding Ethical and Regulatory Architecture of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Data

Posted on by Karen Staman

Using patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) data requires balancing the need for sufficient private health information to support meaningful research with the need to protect patient privacy and autonomy. In support of this dual goal, The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has just released a document that provides a collection of tools and resources aimed at helping a broad audience of stakeholders understand the ethical and regulatory requirements related to collecting, using, sharing, and disclosing PCOR data.

“An architecture is necessary to ensure patient privacy is protected and health information is appropriately secured during collection, access, use, and disclosure as required by law, regulation, and/or policy.” —Legal and Ethical Architecture for PCOR Data

PCOR data will help expand the evidence base for therapies and improve health outcomes for individual patients.

Read the full document: Legal and Ethical Architecture for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Data (“Architecture”)

The document is divided into 5 chapters:

Chapter 1: Overview of Legal and Ethical Architecture for PCOR Data provides background for the project and an overview of key ethical and regulatory requirements.

Chapter 2: Legal and Ethical Significance of Data for PCOR describes fundamental concepts for organizing data into categories such that legal and ethical frameworks can be applied. The chapter includes key considerations and types of data relevant to PCOR, such as clinical, administrative, patient-generated, etc.

Chapter 3: Linking Legal and Ethical Requirements to PCOR Data organizes the relevant legal provisions according to the key data considerations outlined in Chapter 2: identifiability, subject, source, access and use/purpose, consent/authorization, security, and legal status.

Chapter 4: Framework for Navigating Legal and Ethical Requirements for PCOR is designed as a decision tool that builds on the key data considerations described in Chapters 2 and 3. The goal of this chapter is to help researchers determine whether laws apply to particular data and if so, what requirements to attach to their collection and use.

Chapter 5: Mapping Research Flows to Legal Requirements identifies 6 hypothetical use cases, identifies decision trigger points, and maps representative data flows to the relevant legal requirements.

 

March 14, 2018: Public Input on Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Due April 1

Posted on by Karen Staman

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is requesting information to help inform a competition in the fall to develop and implement user-friendly technical tools for the collection of patient-reported outcome (PRO) data. The AHRQ is interested in learning about experiences with physical function PRO measures that are currently in use in ambulatory care settings, including primary and secondary care, as well as the methods used to collect these data. The information will be used to select physical function measures for the competition, which aims to bolster collection and integration of PRO data in the electronic health record by developing and piloting new, user-friendly tools. Responses can be emailed to Janey.hsiao@ahrq.hhs.gov and are due April 1, 2018.