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Engaging Patients with Type B Aortic Dissections as Partners in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research

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COVID-19-Related Project Enhancement

By leveraging existing networks to reach the aortic dissection (AD) community through online patient support networks and advocacy and professional organizations, the project will expand outreach to engage additional individuals at risk for AD through a patient-facing COVID-19 survey.

The enhancement will also solicit the perspectives of front-line healthcare professionals, including vascular surgeons, cardiac surgeons, and cardiologists via a survey of experiences caring for patients with AD during the COVID-19 pandemic. A subsample of patient and provider survey respondents will participate in in-depth interviews for a more detailed understanding of how COVID-19 is affecting the AD community.

Enhancement Award Amount: $150,000*

Type B aortic dissection (TBAD) is a life-threatening condition caused by a tear in the descending thoracic aorta. Patients with TBAD face dramatically different options for care without strong evidence for the long-term consequences of those options at an individual level. There are no randomized trials that compare the different approaches in TBAD management, nor is there information available regarding which outcomes matter to people with TBAD given a patient’s unique characteristics or even their willingness to participate in a study that would compare the different approaches.

The project team seeks to build a formal infrastructure for a TBAD stakeholder community (patients with TBAD, clinicians, and researchers) to advise research teams on the questions that are most important to patients with TBAD. This award provides an opportunity to build stakeholder partnerships and grow them to include the organizations involved in research (IRAD, GenTAC Alliance, MAC consortium) while building a governance infrastructure and creating an outreach plan to engage patients with TBAD as research partners. The team will follow the principles of reciprocal relations, co-learning, trust, and transparency promoted by PCORI to engage its patient partners. The team will evaluate the preexisting research knowledge and willingness of patient partners to participate in healthcare research, and to ascertain research priorities from the stakeholder’s perspective and translate these priorities to patient-centered outcomes (PCOR) and comparative clinical effectiveness (CER) TBAD research.

The outcome is to assemble a broad network of patients with TBAD who are well informed, will participate in identifying knowledge gaps that would benefit from CER and PCORI, and who will guide the research prioritization process. The steering committee members will circulate the results to their networks and advise on opportunities for wide dissemination via national meeting presentations, webinars, and peer-reviewed publications. The information dissemination will include the results of the initial survey, literature review and fact sheets, and research prioritization. Moreover, creating this community will also allow future patient activation for pragmatic trials.

The project team will begin by creating a six-member steering committee (four patient consultants, two researchers) to guide the proposed project. Steering committee patient partner members will be paid through UW at a rate equivalent to a junior faculty member. The team will form an advisory group of leaders in research and patient advocacy (15-20 members) to provide input to shape the TBAD research collaborative’ s efforts. These groups will each meet on a monthly basis. The broad TBAD virtual patient network engagement will start with a webinar to explain the objectives of this grant, the methodology employed, and explain the survey process and how the stakeholders can be involved. These webinars will be placed on social media and stored on the collaborative website. An in-person meeting will take place in year 1, and funds allocated for travel support will be disbursed to meeting attendees based on need and level of engagement with project work. At each milestone, the team will disseminate the results via social media, the collaborative website, and professional society websites. This allows for expansion and increased diversity of the stakeholder group and continued incorporation of patient perspectives/experiences into research question development.

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Project Resource: TBAD Collaborative Introductory Webinar

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Project Details

Project Status
Awarded; In progress
Project Lead
Sherene Shalhub, MD, MPH
Project Period *  
24 months
Organization
University of Washington Department of Surgery
Year Awarded
2019
State
Washington
Project Type
Engagement Award Project
Funding Announcement
COVID-19-Related Project Enhancement
Project Budget *  
$377,107

*All proposed enhancement projects, including requested project plans, budgets and milestone schedules, are approved subject to a programmatic and budget review by PCORI staff and the negotiation of a formal award modification.

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