Transcript PROSPER

PATIENT-CENTERED RESEARCH INTO
OUTCOMES STROKE PATIENTS PREFER AND
EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH
What is PCORI?
 PROSPER is funded by PCORI
 PCORI =Patient Centered Outcomes
Research Institute
 Nonprofit organization established
by the Affordable Care Act in 2010
PCORI’s Mission
To fund research that offers patients and
caregivers the information they need to make
important healthcare decisions
What is PROSPER?
 Patient-centered Research into Outcomes Stroke
Patients prefer and Effectiveness Research
 Above all, PROSPER is a research collaboration
Patients
 Doctors
 Caregivers
 Researchers
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 Multiple perspectives and
experiences = better understanding!
Why are we doing PROSPER?
 Stroke is a major public health problem
 800,000 each year in the US: that’s 1 every 40 seconds!
 4th leading cause of death
 Leading cause of disability
 What we don’t know:
 Common therapies like statins and blood thinners help avoid
another stroke, but how do they affect functional status,
time at home, quality of life?
 Certain therapies may be effective for certain patients, but
what about for less well-studied patient groups like
women, minorities, and the elderly?
A Few Questions…
Can antidepressants
improve my quality of
life after stroke?
How well do these
therapies work over the
long-term?
How do the new
anticoagulants affect my
likelihood of having
another stroke?
Are statins as beneficial for
older adults as for younger
adults?
What are the tradeoffs
between long-term health
and potential negative
effects of my medications?
How do we plan to answer these questions?
 Clinical data sources
 Get With the Guidelines (GWTG) – Stroke
 National registry of over 2 million acute stroke patients
 Measures the medical treatment received during
hospitalization
 Can use this data to see where doctors and hospitals can
improve their stroke care
 Medicare-CMS
 Use of healthcare services by people enrolled in Medicare
 Information about rehospitalizations after the initial stroke
and how much time is spent at home during the year after
discharge
Patient questionnaire
 Patient data source: phone interviews at 3 and 6
months after discharge to assess:
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Days alive and at home (“hometime”)
Any fatigue or depression
experienced as a result of the stroke
Quality of life
Mobility
Whether patient can complete
normal activities like dressing,
eating, shopping
How well patients are tolerating
their medications/any side effects
they are experiencing
How do we think this will help patients?
 Use results to develop patient tools available on an interactive
online portal
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Stroke warning signs/symptoms
How to reduce risk of having another stroke
What therapies are associated with more time at home and better quality of life
 Provide results back to providers
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Unique data on treatments that are preferred by patients
Promote shared decision-making
 Generate scientific knowledge
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Build a research platform so that
additional questions prioritized by stroke
survivors can be answered in the future
How can patients help?
 Ideas
 Volunteer with AHA/ASA
 Join local stroke support group
 Send us your feedback
Investigative Team
DCRI
Adrian Hernandez, Ying Xian, Emily O’Brien, Melissa
Greiner, Jingjing Wu, Tina Harding, Laura Drew, Eric
Peterson, Michael Pencina
Patient Co-Investigators
Lesley Maisch, Deidre Hanna, Brianna Lindholm
Steering Committee
Gregg Fonarow (UCLA), Lee Schwamm (MGH), Daiwai Olson
(UTSW)
GWTG Stroke Science Liaisons
Eric Smith (Alberta), Deepak Bhatt (BWH)