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Post-Acute Physician Home Visit Program

NCT03178513 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 51

Last updated 2019-08-13

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Summary

New or worsening symptoms following discharge from the hospital likely leads to unplanned readmission. These rates are higher than desired and costly to patients, payers, and providers. Many interventions have unsuccessfully attempted to reduce readmissions, but few have provided in-home personnel to patients transitioning from acute care back to ambulatory care. Still fewer have involved a physician in the home. We therefore will test the effect of a physician home visit to a patient's home who was discharged in the last 4 days.

Conditions

  • A Patient Discharged From an Acute-care Hospital Who Had an Acute Illness

Interventions

OTHER

Home visit

The visit will be entirely patient tailored, last approximately one hour, and at a minimum will entail: * Medical assessment * Psychosocial assessment * Medication reconciliation * Follow-up of inpatient primary team's specific recommendations * Follow-up, as needed, with primary care team or inpatient team

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Brigham and Women's Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jeffrey Schnipper, MD MPH · Brigham and Women's Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-06-06
Primary Completion
2018-01-20
Completion
2018-01-20

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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