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Care Transitions Measure 3-question version
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Basic Information

Abbreviated name
CTM-3
Full name
Care Transitions Measure 3-question version
Items ?
The number of questions in the survey
3
Short description
The most widely used measure of care transition quality is the Care Transitions Measure (CTM-15). This is a brief 3-question version. The 4 CTM domains derived from patient focus groups are; information transfer, patient and caregiver preparation, support for self-management, and empowerment to assert preferences.
PCCC or QoL? ?
This compendium contains patient-reported measures that are either designed to specifically measure aspects of Person Centred Co-Ordinated Care (P3C), or alternatively tools that are designed to measure some aspect of Quality of Life (QoL) or Health Related Quality of Life (hrQoL). All the measures in this compendium have been broadly categorised into one of those two concepts.
Person Centred Coordinated Care
Main Domains Measured ?
This is the key domains that the measure is targeting.
Information transfer, patient/caregiver preparation, self-management and empowerment.
Type of measure ?
The measures in this compendium can take a variety of forms. Generally, they will be either Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) or Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM). However, we have also included a few measures that are completed by proxy-individual (PROXY), which are useful in instances where the respondent cannot answer directly (e.g. dementia or end of life). Sometimes, these measures can even be a composite of these types, and target both experiences and outcomes – we have labelled these measures “PROEMs”.
PREM
Respondent ?
The person that fills in the questionnaire - e.g. patient, Health Care Professional, or proxy (normally a carer or family member)
Patients
Permissive licence ?
Whether the measure is free to use without major restrictions, or instead permission and/or licensing fees are required. E.g. if "Yes", you should seek authorisation/permission prior to using the instrument.
Freely available online
Copy of questionnaire
http://caretransitions.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/CTM-15.pdf

Detailed Information

Year developed ?
The year in which the measure was first published.
2008
Country developed in ?
The main country[s] in which the measure was first developed.
US
Original publication ?
The publication in which the measure was originally published.
Search Citations of Original Reference
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18388847
Website link ?
A link to the developer of the measure, if they have a website.
http://caretransitions.org/?s=care+transitions+measure
Target condition ?
The measures can be either generic or disease specific (e.g. Diabetes, Heart Failure)
Generic
Main context tested in ?
The main context in which the measure has been developed and used (E.g. Hopital, General Practice etc).
Hospital (transition)
Main countries used in ?
The main countries in which the measure has been developed and used.
US
Target age ?
e.g. Adults, Children, Elderly
Adolescents, adults, older people.
Main uses of measure ?
The context in which the measure is most often used – e.g. clinical trials; national surveys.
To evaluate the essential processes of care involved in successful care transitions, including information transfer, patient and caregiver preparation, self-management support, empowerment to assert preferences, from a patient-centered perspective.
Used in UK? ?
Whether the instrument has been tested and validated within a UK healthcare context.
No
Impact ?
A crude indication of the impact of the measure on academia. This is the number of times the original publication has been cited on PubMed, divided/normalised to the years since publication.
0.125
Language
English
Official translations
Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, and Russian
Other versions available
CTM-15
Flesch-Kincaid readability tests ?
A rating that corresponds approximately to US school grade level. For example, a score of 8.0 means that an eighth grader can understand the document. Generally, a score of 7 or 8 should be appropriate.
9.7

Domains

Domain description
Information Transfer, Patient and Caregiver Preparation, Support for Self-Management, and Empowerment to Assert Preferences

Psychometrics

Brief description ?
A brief description of the initially reported psychometric properties of the measure.
An independent evaulation explored the validity of the CTM-3 based on the known-groups validity method. It had mixed results that raised questions about its ability to detect differences in care transition quality.