Availability and Quality of Assessment Instruments on Patient-Centredness in the Multimorbid Elderly (AQuA-PCE): a study protocol of a systematic review.

摘要: Introduction Elderly, multimorbid patients are a primary target group for patient-centred care, and fostering patient-centredness (PC) in this has been associated with different healthcare aims such as safety quality of healthcare. However, evidence on effects interventions is still limited mixed. In part, the lack consistent its roots conceptual uncertainty term ‘PC’, which also hampers development assessment tools PC. Consequently, reviews instruments PC reveal problems regarding identified their comparability. Some these focus elderly. while concept multimorbidity partly inherent, not explicit any reviews. The aim systematic review to identify elderly, using subgroup-specific definition (‘subgroup-specific integrative model PC’) underpinning, provide critical appraisal psychometric properties. Methods analysis A comprehensive literature search will be conducted MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Web Science PSYNDEX electronic databases. strategy informed by complemented hand-search combining citation tracking, project databases, contacting authors from relevant studies/reviews. (systematic hand-search) cover period November, 2018 December 2019. retrieval studies via title screening, abstract full-text eligibility applying defined inclusion criteria. Full texts independently assessed two team members. Data included articles extracted standardised extraction form evaluated based COSMIN methodology patient-reported outcome measures, focuses methodological well measurement properties instruments. independent reviewers. Ethics dissemination study received approval Committee University Freiburg (reference number 587/17). results disseminated scientific oral presentations at national international conferences published journals. Trial registration numbers CRD42018084057; DRKS00013309.