VOIES-D-ql - Qualitative Study on Experiences of Diabetes Care Delivery and Planning

Summary

Population aging and the increase in incidence and prevalence of potentially disabling chronic conditions make health care more and more complex and costly. In this context, timelines are longer and adherence to care provision and health status are more variable - both within and between patients - and care is provided by different health care professionals, as well as services outside the health system, which may work at various levels of service integration. For diabetes, this is especially the case: patients at high risk for multimorbidity interact with multiple health care professionals, such as primary care physicians, diabetes specialists, nurses, nutritionists and therapeutic educators, with different perspectives to treatment. The patient is frequently the only link between the different health care professionals, and very often the main source of information regarding performed procedures, diagnoses and treatment decisions.

A current challenge facing all health care stakeholders, including policy makers, practitioners, businesses, and patients, is to coordinate the available services and integrate care ensuring safety, effectiveness, and comprehensiveness in relation to the needs of individual users across the lifespan. Routine collected data can provide key information to completely assess a patient's health status and thus help evaluating and deciding adapted steps in treatment to stabilize or improve clinical outcomes.

In France, the Dossier Medical Partagé (Shared Medical Record) represents an effort to centralize and improve accessibility, to patients and professionals alike, of medical information. This system is yet little adopted and there is the need for added value initiatives to exploit the tool's potential. In other countries, like the UK, the governmental unit NHSX develops public policies and good practices for the digital transformation of the NHS. In the United States, working groups like the Health Information Technology Working Group, in the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, develop electronic care plans using Electronic Health Record data for chronic kidney disease patients. These initiatives, among others, show the necessity of simple, visual communication in order to build a comprehensive care delivery pathway to inform decision and further care planning, according to health goals set by shared decision-making.

This study aims to describe individual experiences of chronic care delivery of people living with diabetes and also from healthcare professionals working in diabetes care from 3 different domains: clinical (relevant clinical criteria necessary for the decision-making process, goal setting and planning), technological (tools used in routine practice and in patients' daily lives), and behavioural (behaviours and interactions that build the patient's pathway and strategies implemented by patients and professionals to help the decision-making process).

Locations of the study : Primary and secondary healthcare facilities and patient associations in Lyon and Grenoble areas

Conditions

• Diabete Type 1
• Diabete Type 2

Interventions

OTHER

Description of patients' experiences of diabetes care delivery and planning

Semi-directed interviews will be conducted with people living with type 1 or type 2 diabetes in person or by phone to assess and describe the care delivery pathway they have been through. Information on 3 domains will be assessed: clinical (information they consider essential for health care professionals to systematically have access to during consultations and other health-related interventions such as therapeutic education sessions), technological (what kind of digital services and technologies they use or are willing to use), and behavioural (the decision-making process and the key interactions that build the care delivery pathway).

OTHER

Description of health care professionals needs and experiences in diabetes care delivery and planning

Semi-directed interviews will be conducted with health care professionals working in diabetes care in person or by phone to assess and describe their needs and experiences in diabetes care. Information on 3 domains will be assessed: clinical (the information they consider to be essential to inform decisions in diabetes care, where and if they currently find that information and problems they might encounter), technological (which software they currently use and how data is input into clinical information systems), and behavioural (how care coordination is currently managed, how interactions with patients and other professionals are undertaken).

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Hospices Civils de Lyon

  lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Months

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2021-01-01

Primary Completion

2021-07-30

Completion

2021-07-30

Countries

• France

Study Locations