Measured outcomes of chronic care programs for older adults: a systematic review

BMC Geriatrics

Paul Stolee¹  Jacobi Elliott¹  Heather McNeil¹  Jennifer Walker²  Heather Drouin¹ 

[1] School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo N2L 3G1, ON, Canada;School of Human and Social Development, Nipissing University, Muskoka Campus, 125 Wellington St, Bracebridge P1L 1E2, ON, Canada

关键词: Seniors;    Chronic illness;    Expanded chronic care model;    Chronic care model;   

Others  :  1231068
DOI  :  10.1186/s12877-015-0136-7

 received in 2014-10-20, accepted in 2015-10-19,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Background

Wagner’s Chronic Care Model (CCM), as well as the expanded version (ECCM) developed by Barr and colleagues, have been widely adopted as frameworks for prevention and management of chronic disease. Given the high prevalence of chronic illness in older persons, these frameworks can play a valuable role in reorienting the health care system to better serve the needs of seniors. We aimed to identify and assess the measured goals of E/CCM interventions in older populations. In particular, our objective was to determine the extent to which published E/CCM initiatives were evaluated based on population, community, system and individual-level outcomes (including clinical, functional and quality of life measures).

Methods

We conducted a systematic search of the Science Citation Index Web of Knowledge search tool to gather articles published between January 2003 and July 2014. We included published CCM interventions that cited at least one of the fundamental papers that introduced and described the CCM and ECCM. Studies retained for review reported evaluations of senior-focused E/CCM initiatives in community-based settings, with the topic of “older adults” OR senior* OR elder* OR geriatric OR aged. The resulting 619 published articles were independently reviewed for inclusion by two researchers. We excluded the following: systematic reviews, meta-analyses, descriptions of proposed programs, and studies whose populations did not focus on seniors.

Results

We identified 14 articles that met inclusion criteria. Studies used a wide range of measures, with little consensus between studies. All of the included studies used the original CCM. While a range of system-level and individual patient outcomes have been used to evaluate CCM interventions, no studies employed measures of population or community health outcomes.

Conclusions

Future efforts to test E/CCM interventions with seniors would be aided by more consistent outcome measures, greater attention to outcomes for the caregivers of older persons with chronic illness, and a greater focus on population and community impacts.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Drouin et al.

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