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Patient-Family Agenda Setting for Primary Care Patients with Cognitive Impairment: the SAME Page Trial.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Establishing priorities for discussion during time-limited primary care visits is challenging in the care of patients with cognitive impairment. These patients commonly attend primary care visits with a family companion. OBJECTIVE:To examine whether a patient-family agenda setting intervention improves primary care visit communication for patients with cognitive impairment DESIGN: Two-group pilot randomized controlled study PARTICIPANTS: Patients aged 65?+ with cognitive impairment and family companions (n?=?93 dyads) and clinicians (n?=?14) from two general and one geriatrics primary care clinic INTERVENTION: A self-administered paper-pencil checklist to clarify the role of the companion and establish a shared visit agenda MEASUREMENTS: Patient-centered communication (primary); verbal activity, information disclosure including discussion of memory, and visit duration (secondary), from audio recordings of visit discussion RESULTS: Dyads were randomized to usual care (n?=?44) or intervention (n?=?49). Intervention participants endorsed an active communication role for companions to help patients understand what the clinician says or means (90% of dyads), remind patients to ask questions or ask clinicians questions directly (84% of dyads), or listen and take notes (82% of dyads). Intervention dyads identified 4.4 health issues for the agenda on average: patients more often identified memory (59.2 versus 38.8%; p?=?0.012) and mood (42.9 versus 24.5%; p?=?0.013) whereas companions more often identified safety (36.7 versus 18.4%; p?=?0.039) and personality/behavior change (32.7 versus 16.3%; p?=?0.011). Communication was significantly more patient-centered in intervention than in control visits at general clinics (p?

SUBMITTER: Wolff JL

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6108993 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Patient-Family Agenda Setting for Primary Care Patients with Cognitive Impairment: the SAME Page Trial.

Wolff Jennifer L JL Roter Debra L DL Boyd Cynthia M CM Roth David L DL Echavarria Diane M DM Aufill Jennifer J Vick Judith B JB Gitlin Laura N LN

Journal of general internal medicine 20180718 9

<h4>Background</h4>Establishing priorities for discussion during time-limited primary care visits is challenging in the care of patients with cognitive impairment. These patients commonly attend primary care visits with a family companion.<h4>Objective</h4>To examine whether a patient-family agenda setting intervention improves primary care visit communication for patients with cognitive impairment DESIGN: Two-group pilot randomized controlled study PARTICIPANTS: Patients aged 65 + with cognitiv ...[more]

PMID: 30022409

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Project description:BACKGROUND:Choosing which issues to discuss in the limited time available during primary care visits is an important task for complex patients with chronic conditions. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS:We conducted sequential interviews with complex patients (n = 40) and their primary care physicians (n = 17) from 3 different health systems to investigate how patients and physicians prepare for visits, how visit agendas are determined, and how discussion priorities are established during time-limited visits. KEY RESULTS:Visit flow and alignment were enhanced when both patients and physicians were effectively prepared before the visit, when the patient brought up highest-priority items first, the physician and patient worked together at the beginning of the visit to establish the visit agenda, and other team members contributed to agenda setting. A range of factors were identified that undermined the ability of patient and physicians to establish an efficient working agenda: the most prominent were time pressure and short visit lengths, but also included differing visit expectations, patient hesitancy to bring up embarrassing concerns, electronic medical record/documentation requirements, differences balancing current symptoms versus future medical risk, nonactionable items, differing philosophies about medications and lifestyle interventions, and difficulty by patients in prioritizing their top concerns. CONCLUSIONS:Primary care patients and their physicians adopt a range of different strategies to address the time constraints during visits. The primary factor that supported well-aligned visits was the ability for patients and physicians to proactively negotiate the visit agenda at the beginning of the visit. Efforts to optimize care within time-constrained systems should focus on helping patients more effectively prepare for visits. Physicians should ask for the patient's agenda early, explain visit parameters, establish a reasonable number of concerns that can be discussed, and collaborate on a plan to deal with concerns that cannot be addressed during the visit.

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Patient-Family Agenda Setting for Primary Care Patients with Cognitive Impairment: the SAME Page Trial.

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Patient-Family Agenda Setting for Primary Care Patients with Cognitive Impairment: the SAME Page Trial.

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