A Prospective Randomised Control Trial to Study the Effectiveness of a Health Service Innovation Using a Modified Virtual Ward Model to Prevent Unscheduled Readmission of High Risk Patients

Singapore Health Services (SingHealth)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Diseases

Treatments: Other: Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02325752

2011/380/E

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators conducted an open randomized control study of patients who received the transitional care program versus patients who received usual care at the Singapore General Hospital from Aug 2011 to Sept 2012.

Full description

The investigators conducted an open randomized control study of patients who received the transitional care program versus patients who received usual care at the Singapore General Hospital from Aug 2011 to Sept 2012.

Enrollment: 840 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with 2 or more unscheduled admission in the last 90 days to selected medical departments
• LACE score of ≥10.

Exclusion criteria

• Non-residents
• No telephone contact or a resident address
• Residing in long term care facilities.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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840 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients in the control group received usual care by the hospital. There was no contact between the patients in the control group and the study team throughout the 3 months interval. A scheduled telephone call was made at the end of 3 months when they were invited to participate in a telephone survey.

Intervention

Active Comparator group

Description:

Intervention

Treatment:

Other: Intervention