Patient Experience with Primary Care Physician and Risk for Hospitalization in Hispanics with CKD

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: In the general population, the quality of the patient experience with their primary care physician may influence health outcomes but this has not been evaluated in CKD. This is relevant for the growing Hispanic CKD population, which potentially faces challenges to the quality of the patient experience related to language or cultural factors. We evaluated the association between the patient experience with their primary care physician and outcomes in Hispanics with CKD.

DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS: This prospective observational study included 252 English- and Spanish-speaking Hispanics with entry eGFR of 20-70 ml/min per 1.73 m2, enrolled in the Hispanic Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort study between 2005 and 2008. Patient experience with their primary care physician was assessed by the Ambulatory Care Experiences Survey subscales: communication quality, whole-person orientation, health promotion, interpersonal treatment, and trust. Poisson and proportional hazards models were used to assess the association between the patient experience and outcomes, which included hospitalization, ESKD, and all-cause death.

RESULTS: Participants had a mean age of 56 years, 38% were women, 80% were primary Spanish speakers, and had a mean eGFR of 38 ml/min per 1.73 m2. Over 4.8 years (median) follow-up, there were 619 hospitalizations, 103 ESKD events, and 56 deaths. As compared with higher subscale scores, lower scores on four of the five subscales were associated with a higher adjusted rate ratio (RR) for all-cause hospitalization (communication quality: RR, 1.54; 95% confidence interval [95% CI], 1.25 to 1.90; health promotion: RR, 1.31; 95% CI, 1.05 to 1.62; interpersonal treatment: RR, 1.50; 95% CI, 1.22 to 1.85; and trust: RR, 1.57; 95% CI, 1.27 to 1.93). There was no significant association of subscales with incident ESKD or all-cause death.

CONCLUSIONS: Lower perceived quality of the patient experience with their primary care physician was associated with a higher risk of hospitalization.

Errataetall:

CommentIn: Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2018 Nov 7;13(11):1619-1620. - PMID 30337325

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN - 13(2018), 11 vom: 07. Nov., Seite 1659-1667

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cedillo-Couvert, Esteban A [VerfasserIn]
Hsu, Jesse Y [VerfasserIn]
Ricardo, Ana C [VerfasserIn]
Fischer, Michael J [VerfasserIn]
Gerber, Ben S [VerfasserIn]
Horwitz, Edward J [VerfasserIn]
Kusek, John W [VerfasserIn]
Lustigova, Eva [VerfasserIn]
Renteria, Amada [VerfasserIn]
Rosas, Sylvia E [VerfasserIn]
Saunders, Milda [VerfasserIn]
Sha, Daohang [VerfasserIn]
Slaven, Anne [VerfasserIn]
Lash, James P [VerfasserIn]
CRIC Study Investigators [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Ambulatory Care
Cause of Death
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Glomerular filtration rate
Health Promotion
Hispanic Americans
Hospitalization
Humans
Journal Article
Kidney Failure, Chronic
Language
Middle Aged
Observational Study
Physicians, Primary Care
Proportional Hazards Models
Prospective Studies
Renal Insufficiency, Chronic
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Risk
Surveys and Questionnaires

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Date Completed 02.12.2019

Date Revised 13.08.2023

published: Print-Electronic

CommentIn: Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2018 Nov 7;13(11):1619-1620. - PMID 30337325

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.2215/CJN.03170318

funding:

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM289718414