Interventions to Improve HIV Care Engagement After Hospital Discharge

Thammasat University

Status: Completed

Conditions: HIV/AIDS

Treatments: Other: Strategies to improve HIV care engagement

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02578654

MTU-EC-IM-2-082/57

Details and patient eligibility

About

A quasi-experitmental study of the efficacy interventions, including additional HIV care team daily inpatient round and three telephone calls to remind the upcoming clinic appointment, in improving HIV care engagement within 30 days after hospital discharge among HIV-infected patients.

Enrollment: 240 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• HIV-infected patients hospitalized at Thammasat University Hospital during the study period

Exclusion criteria

• The patients who die during admission, are readmitted prior to 30 days after discharge or with incomplete data
• Readmission episodes of the same enrolled patients during the study period

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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240 participants in 1 patient group

Interventions

Experimental group

Description:

Additional HIV care team daily inpatient round and three telephone calls to remind the upcoming clinic appointment. These interventions are specifically added on "routine care" during the post-intervention period. The routine care does not include the additional round and the three telephone calls and is assessed during the pre-intervention period.

Treatment:

Other: Strategies to improve HIV care engagement