Trial reportAnnals of family medicine2019
Visit Planning Using a Waiting Room Health IT Tool: The Aligning Patients and Providers Randomized Controlled Trial.
Trial report in Annals of family medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02707146 (Aligning the Visit Priorities of Complex Patients and Their Primary Care Providers), which is not on this map. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Aligning the Visit Priorities of Complex Patients and Their Primary Care Providers
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Health priorities and treatment preferences of adults with epilepsy: A narrative literature review with a systematic search.Epilepsy & behavior : E&B · 2025Pooled it
- Applied techniques for putting pre-visit planning in clinical practice to empower patient-centered care in the pandemic era: a systematic review and framework suggestion.BMC health services research · 2021Pooled it
- Development and Evaluation of a Tailored Mobile Health Intervention to Improve Medication Adherence in Black Patients With Uncontrolled Hypertension and Type 2 Diabetes: Pilot Randomized Feasibility Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2020Trial
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- Prediction of outpatient waiting time: using machine learning in a tertiary children's hospital.Translational pediatrics · 2023Article
- Do health service waiting areas contribute to the health literacy of consumers? A scoping review.Health promotion international · 2023Article
- Learning health system, positive deviance analysis, and electronic health records: Synergy for a learning health system.Learning health systems · 2023Article
- My Goals Are Not Their Goals: Barriers and Facilitators to Delivery of Patient-Centered Care for Patients with Multimorbidity.Journal of general internal medicine · 2022Article
- Supporting collaborative reflection on personal values and health.Proceedings of the ACM on human-computer interaction · 2021Article
- "They are talking from the Encyclopedia Britannica brain": diabetes patients' perceptions of barriers to communicating with physicians.BMC health services research · 2020Article
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Abstract
purposeTime during primary care visits is limited. We tested the hypothesis that a waiting room health information technology (IT) tool to help patients identify and voice their top visit priorities would lead to better visit interactions and improved quality of care.
methodsWe designed a waiting room tool, the Visit Planner, to guide adult patients through the process of identifying their top priorities for their visit and effectively expressing these priorities to their clinician. We tested this tool in a cluster-randomized controlled trial with usual care as the control. Eligible patients had at least 1 clinical care gap (eg, overdue for cancer screening, suboptimal chronic disease risk factor control, or medication nonadherence).
resultsThe study (conducted March 31, 2016 through December 31, 2017) included 750 English- or Spanish-speaking patients. Compared with usual care patients, intervention patients more often reported "definitely" preparing questions for their doctor (59.5% vs 45.1%,
conclusionsA simple waiting room-based tool significantly improved visit communication. Patients using the Visit Planner were more prepared and more likely to begin the visit by communicating their top priorities. These changes did not, however, lead to further reduction in aggregate clinical care gaps beyond the improvements seen in the usual care arm.
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