| Domain: | Clinician experience | Element/ relationship: | Clinic/ clinician-community resource |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instrument: | Alzheimer's Service Coordination Program (ASCP) Physician Survey | ||
| Purpose: | Questionnaire asked clinician's satisfaction with the Alzheimer's Service Coordination Program—the program was a care partnership arrangement linking primary care physicians with a community organization that specializes in dementia education and support. | ||
| Format/data source: | Health professional survey | ||
| Measure type: | Outcome | 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 (Q10) | ||
| Numerator: | Number of clinicians responding "Very Satisfied" or "Satisfied" | ||
| 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.
