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Does Telephone Follow-up Improve Patients Satisfaction

NCT00192738 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 400

Last updated 2007-04-11

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Summary

Several studies have shown the importance of Telephone follow-up in reducing hospital readmissions for heart failure. Therefore, we aimed in this cohort to investigate whether telephone follow-up with patients discharged from the general internal department improves patients' satisfaction, increases compliance to treatment and reduces adverse effects. Patients are recruited from the department of general internal medicine who gave informed consent and could communicate. Patients are interviewed by during hospital stay, one and three months later. This group will be compared with patients that are not interviewd by phone aftert hospital discharge.

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Rambam Health Care Campus

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Zaher S. Azzam, MD · Rambam Medical Center, Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion

  • Zaher S Azzam, MD · Rambam Medical Center, Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2003-04-30
Completion
2006-01-31

Countries

  • Israel

Study Locations

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