Hospital to Home Outcomes

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Focus: Hospitalized Patients

Treatments: Other: Nurse Home Visit; Other: Standard of Care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02081846

H2O

Details and patient eligibility

About

Home Nurse Visit post discharge.

Full description

To identify barriers to successful transitions that are most meaningful to patients and families, and use these identified barriers to iteratively adapt an existing nurse home visit program to address these barriers. This study will also test the efficacy of a nurse home visit intervention in improving post-discharge outcomes through a randomized controlled trial.

Enrollment: 1,500 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient is under 18 years of age Patient is admitted to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center to hospital medicine, community pediatrics, adolescent medicine, neurology or neurosurgery.

Exclusion criteria

• Patient to be discharged someplace other than home (e.g., residential facility, psychiatric facility)
• Patient's home residence is outside the home nursing service area
• Patient is eligible for "traditional" home nursing services
• Caregiver is non-English speaking

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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1,500 participants in 2 patient groups

Home Nurse Visit

Experimental group

Description:

Families in this arm will receive a nurse home visit within 96 hours of discharge.

Treatment:

Other: Nurse Home Visit

Control

Active Comparator group

Description:

This arm will receive standard of care.

Treatment:

Other: Standard of Care