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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Appl Clin Inform 2023; 14(01): 091-107
DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1760631
Special Section on Patient Engagement in Informatics

Implementing an Electronic Patient-Reported Outcome and Decision Support Tool in Early Intervention

Sabrin Rizk‡   †
1   Children's Participation in Environment Research Lab, College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
2   Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
,
Vera C. Kaelin‡   †
1   Children's Participation in Environment Research Lab, College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
3   Program in Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
,
Julia Gabrielle C. Sim‡   †
1   Children's Participation in Environment Research Lab, College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
,
Natalie J. Murphy
4   Department of Health Systems, Management, and Policy, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, United States
,
Beth M. McManus
4   Department of Health Systems, Management, and Policy, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, United States
,
Natalie E. Leland
5   Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
,
Ashley Stoffel
2   Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
,
Lesly James
6   Department of Occupational Therapy, Lenoir-Rhyne University, Columbia, South Carolina, United States
,
Kris Barnekow
7   Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
,
Elizabeth Lerner Papautsky‡   ††
8   Department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
,
Mary A. Khetani‡   ††
1   Children's Participation in Environment Research Lab, College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
2   Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
3   Program in Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
9   CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research, School of Rehabilitation Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Funding This work is dedicated to our esteemed colleague Kelly Kearns, an amazing service coordinator, who took part in PROSPECT. Kelly passed away from cancer in May 2022. She significantly contributed to this work and will be remembered for her commitment and passion to ensure that family priorities are centered in EI services. This work is funded by American Occupational Therapy Foundation (grant no.: AOTFIR20KHETANI), with additional support from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (grant no.: 5R01HS027583-02), and the Dean's Scholar Fellowship (V. Kaelin), Bridge to Faculty Scholar Program (S. Rizk) and the Honors College Research Grant and Chancellor's Undergraduate Research Award (J. Sim) from the University of Illinois Chicago. The project described, including use of Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap), was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, through Grant UL1TR002003. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the funding agencies. The authors thank members of the High Value Early Intervention Research Group and the American Occupational Therapy Association's Early Childhood Community of Practice for their expertise in shaping the protocol for data collection, and to Vivian Villegas, Zurisadai Salgado, and Marlene Angulo for feedback on preliminary results and figures/tables.
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Abstract

Objective The aim of the study is to identify and prioritize early intervention (EI) stakeholders' perspectives of supports and barriers to implementing the Young Children's Participation and Environment Measure (YC-PEM), an electronic patient-reported outcome (e-PRO) tool, for scaling its implementation across multiple local and state EI programs.

Methods An explanatory sequential (quan > QUAL) mixed-methods study was conducted with EI families (n = 6), service coordinators (n = 9), and program leadership (n = 7). Semi-structured interviews and focus groups were used to share select quantitative pragmatic trial results (e.g., percentages for perceived helpfulness of implementation strategies) and elicit stakeholder perspectives to contextualize these results. Three study staff deductively coded transcripts to constructs in the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR). Data within CFIR constructs were inductively analyzed to generate themes that were rated by national early childhood advisors for their relevance to longer term implementation.

Results All three stakeholder groups (i.e., families, service coordinators, program leadership) identified thematic supports and barriers across multiple constructs within each of four CFIR domains: (1) Six themes for “intervention characteristics,” (2) Six themes for “process,” (3) three themes for “inner setting,” and (4) four themes for “outer setting.” For example, all stakeholder groups described the value of the YC-PEM e-PRO in forging connections and eliciting meaningful information about family priorities for efficient service plan development (“intervention characteristics”). Stakeholders prioritized reaching families with diverse linguistic preferences and user navigation needs, further tailoring its interface with automated data capture and exchange processes (“process”); and fostering a positive implementation climate (“inner setting”). Service coordinators and program leadership further articulated the value of YC-PEM e-PRO results for improving EI access (“outer setting”).

Conclusion Results demonstrate the YC-PEM e-PRO is an evidence-based intervention that is viable for implementation. Optimizations to its interface are needed before undertaking hybrid type-2 and 3 multisite trials to test these implementation strategies across state and local EI programs with electronic data capture capabilities and diverse levels of organizational readiness and resources for implementation.

Keywords

early intervention - assessment - goal setting - implementation strategies - family engagement - facilitators and barriers - children - patient-reported outcomes

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† These authors have contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.


†† These authors have contributed equally to this work and share senior authorship.


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Publication History

Received: 14 July 2022

Accepted: 09 December 2022

Article published online:
01 February 2023

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