Computer Assisted Symptom Evaluation of Complex Patients
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Official title
Computer Assisted Quality of Life and Symptom Assessment of Complex Patients
Brief summary
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Patients who have advanced or multiple chronic illnesses present management difficulties for primary care providers. Acute medical issues and limited time for patient evaluation can complicate complete assessment of physical symptoms that directly impact a patient's quality of life. The Cook County Health and Hospitals System (CCHHS) established an Advanced Illness Management Clinic to provide care for complex patients. Patient entry into the Advanced Illness Management Clinic is by referral only, a passive process. After discharge, general medicine clinic patients who do not have a medical provider are given an appointment in the clinic. Since the hospital is the source of many patients, this guarantees that these patients will have at least one illness advanced enough to require hospitalization, and most will have additional chronic illnesses. An outpatient palliative care clinic located in a specialty clinic setting was initiated in 2004. The goal of the clinic was to extend the benefits realized by hospital patients, for whom palliative care consultation has been available for many years, to patients cared for in the outpatient setting. The benefits provided include physical symptom management, spiritual counseling, and support for social issues. Until recently, this outpatient palliative care model has mainly served patients with malignancy. With the addition of the Advanced Illness Management Clinic, palliative care clinicians now can provide care to patients with other chronic and serious illness in the primary care setting. Hypothesis: Complex patients will have improved quality of life and a reduced symptom burden if seen by a multidisciplinary clinic post-hospitalization, compared to usual care in a general medicine clinic.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT01391026
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 200 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 110 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- May 31, 2011
- Primary completion
- Sep 30, 2012
- Completion
- Sep 30, 2012
- Last update posted
- Jun 21, 2023
2011 – 2012
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stroger Hospital of Cook County | Chicago | Illinois | 60612 | — |
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