The main objective is to investigate i) continuity of care, ii) health literacy and self-management, iii) adherence to treatment, and iv) patient preferences, healthcare utilization and costs, and to determine associations with future short- and long-term health outcomes in patients after percutaneous coronary intervention.
CONCARD will use multiple designs. (1) An inductive exploratory design including in-depth interviews on patients' experiences of healthcare delivery will provide a context for the quantitative data to develop the content of the cohort study and trial intervention. (2) A prospective cohort design with a 1-year follow-up period will include data on patient-reported outcomes, and a 10-year follow-up for adverse events. In translation and adaptation of patient-reported outcome measures, a methodological design will be applied. (3) A discrete choice experiment will investigate patient preferences for aftercare and cardiac rehabilitation.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
3,417
Herlev and Gentofte Hospital
Copenhagen, Denmark
Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark
Odense University Hospital
Odense, Denmark
Zealand University Hospital
Roskilde, Denmark
Continuity of care
The Heart Continuity of Care Questionnaire (HCCQ) comprises 33 items covering eight topic areas regarding continuity of care. Respondents rate each item on a 6-point scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree) or 6 (not applicable).
Time frame: 2 months
Evaluation of the quality of healthcare delivery
The Nordic Patient Experiences Questionnaire (NORPEQ) comprises 8 items and gives a brief measure of patient experiences in evaluation of the quality of healthcare delivery. Respondents rate each item on a 5-point scale ranging from 1 (not at all) to 5 (to a large extent). Six of the eight NORPEQ items sum to produce an overall scale from 0 to 100, where 100 is the best possible experience of care.
Time frame: 2 months
Change in eHealth literacy
The eHealth Literacy Scale (Eheals) is an 8-item measure of eHealth literacy developed to measure consumers' combined knowledge, comfort, and perceived skills at finding, evaluating, and applying electronic health information to health problems. Respondents indicate their agreement with statements on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (Strongly Disagree) to 5 (Strongly agree).
Time frame: 2 months, 12 months
Change in health literacy
The Health literacy questionnaire (HLQ) has nine scale scores that each measure an aspect of the multidimensional construct of health literacy. Each score provides insight into the strengths and limitations of the respondent, but the scores are most powerful when viewed together to show the 'health literacy profile' of the respondent.
Time frame: 2 months, 12 months
Patient knowledge, skill, and confidence for self-management.
The Patient Activation Measure (PAM-13) comprises 13 items assessing patient knowledge, skill and confidence for self-management. Respondents indicate their agreement with statements on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (Strongly Disagree) to 4 (Strongly agree), or 5 (not applicable). Patients with a high activation score were associated with fewer mental health symptoms, greater recovery attitudes and medication adherence.
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Haukeland University Hospital
Bergen, Norway
Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet
Oslo, Norway
Stavanger University Hospital
Stavanger, Norway
Time frame: 6 months
Change in beliefs and perceptions about medicines and treatment
The Beliefs about Medicines Questionnaire (BMQ) assesses beliefs and perceptions about medicines and treatment. The BMQ comprises two sections: the BMQ-Specific which assesses representations of medication prescribed for personal use and the BMQ-General which assesses beliefs about medicines in general. The two sections of the BMQ can be used in combination or separately. For this study, the BMQ-Specific will be used. Respondents rate 11 items on a 5-point scale ranging from 1 (strongly agree) to 5 (strongly disagree).
Time frame: 2 months, 6 months, 12 months
Change in self-reported adherence to medicines
The Medication Adherence Report Scale (MARS-5) measures self-reported adherence to medicines, it assesses both intentional and unintentional non-adherence. Respondents indicate their agreement with statements about their medicine use on a 5 point Likert scale ranging from 1 (always) to 5 (never).
Time frame: 2 months, 6 months, 12 months
Change in medication use
Data related to consumption of prescribed medication are identified through national prescription registries. The registries cover all prescriptions dispensed at pharmacies nationwide. The registries also include information about date of dispensation, quantity and strength dispensed. This will serve as complimentary information to patients' self-reported adherence.
Time frame: 2 months, 6 months, 12 months
Health care utilization
Healthcare utilization will be assessed during follow-up, including patients' use of primary care services (general practitioner visits) and secondary care services (inpatient admissions and outpatient visits). The data source will be nationwide registries. The measurement unit will be mean number of visits.
Time frame: Up to 24 months
Health care (associated) costs
Health care (associated) costs will be valued using the tariffs of national agreements between the professional associations of medical specialists and the National Health Services. In secondary care, inpatient admissions and outpatient visits will be valued using the tariffs of the national case-mix system of the diagnosis-related groupings (DRG) and the ambulatory grouping system (DAGS). In addition, data will be collected on prescription of medication, which will be valued using the retail price. The data source will be nationwide registries. The measurement unit will be mean costs in Euros.
Time frame: Up to 24 months
Time to readmission to hospital
Cardiac and all cause readmissions
Time frame: 30-days, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months, up to 10 years
Time to death
Cardiac and all cause mortality
Time frame: 30-days, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months, up to 10 years
Change in anxiety and depression
The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). The HADS is a fourteen item scale where seven of the items relate to anxiety and seven relate to depression. The respondent rates each item on a 4-point scale ranging from 0 (absence) to 3 (extreme presence). The total score is 42 (21 per subscale).
Time frame: 2 months, 6 months, 12 months
Change in self-reported health
EQ-5D-5L is an 5 item (plus a VAS scale) self-report-questionnaire assessing self-reported health. Each question has 5 levels: no problems, slight problems, moderate problems, severe problems and extreme problems. The patient is asked to indicate his/her health state by ticking the box next to the most appropriate statement in each of the five dimensions. This decision results in a 1-digit number that expresses the level selected for that dimension. The digits for the five dimensions can be combined into a 5-digit number that describes the patient's health state.
Time frame: 2 months, 6 months, 12 months
Change in chest pain
The Seattle Angina Questionnaire (SAQ-7) comprises 7 dimensions of coronary artery disease. Each scale is transformed to a score of 0 to 100, where higher scores indicate better function (eg, less physical limitation, less angina, and better quality of life).
Time frame: 2 months, 6 months, 12 months
Change in fatigue
A visual analog scale ranging from 0 (fatigue is not a problem) to 10 (fatigue is a major problem) is used to measure change in fatigue
Time frame: 2 months, 6 months,12 months
Frailty status
The Study of Osteoporotic Fractures (SOF) index will be used to measure frailty status. The SOF index includes three items: 1) weight loss \> 5% in the last year, 2) inability to rise from a chair five times without using arms, and 3) reduced energy level. The questions have dichotomous response alternatives (yes/no). Patients who meet none of these criteria will be considered robust, one of the criteria are pre-frail, and two or three of these criteria are considered frail.
Time frame: 12 months
Patient preferences in discrete choice experiments
A discrete choice experiment (DCE) is a quantitative technique for eliciting preferences to be used in the absence of revealed preference data. This involves asking individuals to state their preference over hypothetical alternative scenarios. Each alternative is described by several attributes which are used to determine if preferences are significantly influenced by these. No standardized measurement tool is used in DCE. The alternative scenarios (attributes) are developed for each individual study. Therefore, a DCE will be undertaken as a cross-sectional survey to investigate the preferences for aftercare. Participants are asked to choose between hypothetical aftercare programs described by five key characteristics that varies across each of the respondents' choices. The DCE will be carried out according to recommendations by the ISPOR group. A multinomial mixed logit model are used to model preferences and calculate marginal rates of substitution.
Time frame: 3 months
Health related quality of life
The HeartQoL questionnaire is a core ischemic heart disease specific health related quality of life (HRQL) questionnaire. The questionnaire comprises 14-items with 10-item physical and 4-item emotional subscales which are scored from 0 (poor HRQL) to 3 (better HRQL) with a global score if needed.
Time frame: 12 months
Change in physical and mental dimensions of health.
RAND-12 measures physical and mental dimensions of health. The 12 items in the questionnaire correspond to eight principal physical and mental health domains. The 12 items are summarized into two scores, a "Physical Health Summary Measure {PCS-physical component score}" and a "Mental Health Summary Measure {MCS-mental component score}".
Time frame: 2 months, 6 months, 12 months
Change in health status following myocardial infarction
The Myocardial Infarction Dimensional Assessment Scale (MIDAS) is a PRO measure developed and validated to specifically measure the health status of individuals who have suffered a myocardial infarction. It consist of 7 domains, and is a 35 item scale where respondents rate each item on a 5-point scale ranging from 1 (never) to 5 (always). The function of the MIDAS is to indicate the extent of ill health in each of the seven domains assessed, therefore each dimension is scored separately using a simple scoring methodology.
Time frame: 2 months, 6 months, 12 months