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The CARS Study: Communicating About Readiness (for Discharge)

NCT01873105 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 604

Last updated 2019-04-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to improve the experience of discharge of adult medical surgical patients through improved discharge preparation communication between patients and care team members, with subsequent improvement in the post-discharge experience. Obtaining multiple perspectives on discharge readiness creates the opportunity for patient and care team to partner in identifying deficiencies in discharge readiness that warrant anticipatory, compensatory, or corrective interventions prior to discharge, with the goal of averting post-discharge problems and utilization. The results will also inform development and translation of tools for assessment of discharge readiness to clinical care environments.

Conditions

  • Hospital Discharge Communication Processes

Interventions

OTHER

Health Team Educational Intervention

AHRQ TeamStepps processes will be used to redesign health team discharge communication processes and an educational intervention for health care team members

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Froedtert Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • Marquette University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Marianne Weiss, DNSc RN · Marquette Unoversity

  • Kristi Opper, MS RN · Froedtert Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
SEQUENTIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-03-31
Primary Completion
2016-05-31
Completion
2016-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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