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Study of Physician Awareness of and Communication About Patient Readmissions to the Hospital

NCT00550264 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 500

Last updated 2011-06-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Patients admitted to inpatient medicine services often require early hospital readmission, and often they are readmitted to different physician or team, potentially without the knowledge of the prior physician or team. Thus, physicians may lose the opportunity to share valuable information about readmitted patients, which may be detrimental to continuity of care and patient safety. The purpose of this study is to determine baseline awareness and communication rates among physicians regarding readmissions, and then measure the effect of automatic notification on these rates.

Conditions

  • Hospital Readmission

Interventions

OTHER

Automatic notification of readmissions

The experimental group physicians will receive automatic e-mail notification when a patient is readmitted, including contact information for the readmitting team.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Harvard Risk Management Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Brigham and Women's Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Christopher L Roy, MD · Brigham and Women's Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-02-28
Primary Completion
2008-01-31
Completion
2008-01-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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