Living With Stroke - Sustainable Utilization of Healthcare Services
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In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- This is an observational study: the protocol does not assign a study treatment.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Stroke, Cerebrovascular Disorders, Cerebrovascular Accident, Healthcare Utilization. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Israel
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Overview
The proposed study will generate a national mapping of healthcare utilization patterns in people post-stroke in the chronic phase living in the community; examine the associations between individual-level characteristics, health outcomes and healthcare utilization; and will describe patients' perspectives on their needs for health services and their experiences of using them. The study will use mixed-methods methodology (quantitative and qualitative) and will proceed in three parts. In part 1, data will be extracted retrospectively from electronic medical records of of Clalit Health Services, covering all patients with a stroke diagnosis. In part 2, a sub-sample of 240 patients will be asked to answer standardized questionnaires. In part 3, a sub-sample of 20 participants will participate in in-depth, semi-structured interviews.
Detailed description
Stroke is the leading cause of long-term disability worldwide. Although healthcare services can have a crucial role in mitigating the long-term multidimensional disabilities caused by stroke, most medical and rehabilitative services are currently directed towards the acute phase of the disease up to six months after its occurrence. Healthcare services in the chronic phase are inadequately structured, and stroke survivors in the community report lack of continuity of care and a sense of abandonment. Long-term utilization patterns of healthcare service by post-stroke persons are unknown.
Based on data to be collected from people in the chronic post-stroke phase living in the community, the study goals are to (1) generate a national mapping of patterns of healthcare utilization; (2) examine associations between individual-level characteristics and healthcare utilization; and (3) describe patients' perspectives on their needs for health services and their experience of using them.
A 'Mixed methods' research combining qualitative and quantitative methods will be conducted.The research will include 3 parts: Part 1 of the study is retrospective study based on data extracting from electronic medical records of Clalit Health Services on healthcare utilization of people post-stroke (app. 40,000 people); Part 2 is a cross-sectional study based on a sub-group of 240 people post-stroke that will be asked to answer standardized questionnaires on face to face meeting aimed to capture individual determinants of healthcare utilization; Part 3 will include in-depth interviews with 20 people post-stroke to capture patients' perspectives on their post-stroke healthcare needs and their experience of using healthcare services.
Primary outcome measures
- Visits to a neurologist [Time frame: 1 year]
- Use of physical therapy services [Time frame: 1 year]
- Stroke impact Scale - SIS 3.0 [Time frame: 1 hour]
- Visits to the emergency medicine center and urgent hospitalization data from Clalit's electronic medical records (EMR) of all insured patients who had a stroke. An estimated number of 40,000 patients post-stroke. [Time frame: 1 year]
Secondary outcome measures (3)
- Use of occupational therapy services [Time frame: 1 year]
- Use of speech-language therapy services [Time frame: 1 year]
- Recurrent stroke [Time frame: 1 year]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria for the retrospective study (Part 1):
- People diagnosed with stroke (First stroke occurred between 2010-2022)
- At least one year after the event
- Living in the community
- Aged 18 and above
- Insured by HMO (Clalit health services)
Exclusion Criteria for the retrospective study (Part 1):
- Stroke chronicity of less than a year
- Diagnosis of TIA (Transient Ischemic Attack)
Inclusion Criteria for the cross-sectional and qualitative study (Parts 2\&3):
- People diagnosed with stroke
- Hospitalized for a first stroke at the 'Carmel' Medical Center between 2010-2022
- Understand Hebrew/ Arabic/ Russian in a way that allows them to understand the consent form and answer the survey questions.
Exclusion Criteria for the cross-sectional and qualitative study (Parts 2\&3):
- Stroke chronicity of less than a year the study
- Transient ischemic attack (TIA)
- Patients who have a guardian, a nursing condition as a result of diseases other than stroke or other serious background diseases that impair function, people with communication difficulties that do not allow answering questionnaires or to be interviewed.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Case-only
Study locations
Israel · 1 center
- University of Haifa — Haifa
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06096831 · CMC-0082-22