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Supporting Decision Making for Musculoskeletal Preference-Sensitive Care

CompletedNot applicableNCT01345123
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.

Brief summary (from the registry)

The purpose of this study is to compare condition oriented whole person Health Coaching along with the provision of decision aids to decision aids without condition oriented Health Coaching to neither condition oriented health coaching nor decision aids on medical cost, preference sensitive surgeries and measures of subject knowledge, decision process and decision quality.

Study details

Official title
A Prospective, Randomized Trial to Assess the Impact of Decision Aids and Health Coaching on Health Care Costs, Surgery Rates, and Decision Quality for Individuals At Risk for Musculoskeletal Preference-Sensitive Surgical Decisions
Conditions
Interventions
  • Behavioral: Provision of condition specific shared decision making (SDM) aids only
  • Behavioral: Telephonic outreach and support by Health Coach
Sponsor
Health Dialog
Collaborators
Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making; University of Massachusetts, Boston
Start date
2011-01
Primary completion
2011-11
Sex
All
Age range
from 18 Years
Healthy volunteers
true
Results posted
Yes, on ClinicalTrials.gov
Countries
United States
Total sites listed
1

Eligibility criteria

Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Participants in two large, commercial Blue Cross and/or Blue Shield branded insurance products with eligibility for Health Dialog services * Identified by distinct Health Dialog proprietary models for risk of lumbar back, knee or hip surgeries * Selected by simple randomization for inclusion in an interactive voice response (IVR) administered screening survey * Participated in an IVR-administered screener survey and responded affirmatively to questions on pain for any one of the three conditions, any current or planned treatment for the conditions, and responded negatively to having had a condition specific surgery within the past six months Exclusion Criteria: * People under 18 years of age at time of identification for the IVR filtering survey, approximately 6 weeks prior to the start of the study * People with invalid phone numbers or invalid mailing addresses based on automated review of those fields * People for whom Health Dialog has information of a request for no IVR, no Health Coach outreach, or mailings prior to the start of the study * People with claims based indication of spinal stenosis prior to the start of the study * People who have been targeted for any IVR outreach within 180 days of the initiation of the IVR filtering survey * People who have a Health Coach communication record, as documented in the Health Coaching application within 90 days of the start of the study * Any members of households who have a household member already selected for inclusion in the study * People for whom there is claims evidence of any one of the targeted surgeries prior the start of the study * People with no eligibility for services through insurer after the start of the study

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01345123