Appendix Table A-16. CCRM Atlas Measure 13: Clinician discussion of treatment plan with patients or family caregivers (ASCP Physician Survey)
| Domain: | Assessment and goal setting | Element/ relationship: |
Clinic/clinician-patient |
| Instrument: | Alzheimer's Service Coordination Program (ASCP) Physician Survey | ||
| Purpose: | Physicians are asked whether they reviewed or discussed treatment plan with patients or family caregivers while participating in the program. | ||
| Format/data source: | Health Professional Survey | ||
| Measure type: | Process | Date: | 1997 |
| Preventive service/ USPSTF: | Other – Mental Health* | ||
| Clinical practice: | Primary Care – Family Practice; Primary Care – Internal Medicine | ||
| Denominator: | Clinicians in the area who have at least six dementia patients and who referred family caregivers diagnosed with dementia to a service coordinator and responded to question (Q2). Must have answered “Yes” (a or b) to (Q1) as well. | ||
| Numerator: | Number of clinicians responding “Yes” | ||
| Development & testing: | Tested versions of the survey with academic general internists for clarity and brevity before the instrument was fielded. | ||
| Past or validated application: | |||
| Citation(s): | Fortinsky, R.H., Unson, C.G., and Garcia, R.I. Helping family caregivers by linking primary care physicians with community-based dementia care services: The Alzheimer's Service Coordination Program. Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice (2002) 1(2), 227-240. | ||
| Notes: | Please be aware that this measure is using only a selected section of an entire survey instrument. Therefore, this individual measure may need to undergo further reliability and validation testing to ensure that it can be applied in a clinical-community relationship setting. | ||
* This is a measure that was originally applied in a mental health setting, but it could be adapted for a primary care setting.
