Analysis of the Virtual Acute Care at Home Experience (NCT05952999) | Clinical Trial Compass
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Analysis of the Virtual Acute Care at Home Experience
United States9,654 participantsStarted 2023-08-15
Plain-language summary
The purpose of this study is to examine the implementation, intervention effectiveness, and dissemination of a digital acute care delivery model for improving selected health outcomes in the Hospital at Home population.
Who can participate
Age range18 Years
SexALL
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Inclusion Criteria:
* Patients 18 years and older who are admitted into the Hospital at Home program after presenting to the emergency department or who are inpatients that can be cared at home for hospital level needs
* Patients meeting the hospital's criteria for admission by diagnosis type (e.g., heart failure, respiratory infections and inflammations, renal failure, diabetes, pneumonia, bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, fever and inflammatory conditions, viral illnesses, other disorders of the nervous system). Diagnoses are determined by clinicians not researchers.
* Patients will need to reside within 30 minutes' drive time from the hospital
Patient caregiver inclusion criteria: (not required for patient participation):
* Age \>= 18 years old
* as capacity to consent to study
Clinician or stakeholder inclusion criteria:
* Any member of the home hospital clinical team (a healthcare professional who providing care or equipment for use in the home) who will be participating in delivery of healthcare services,
* Any member of the hospital care teams, including the screening and recruitment of patients for the home hospital intervention and/or providing care to patients that enroll in the intervention that is provided
* Any member of the leadership team who are involved in the operational aspects of program delivery
Exclusion Criteria:
* Need for long-term facility level care or current residence in a facility of this type
* No one will be excluded on …
What they're measuring
1
Composite of all-cause mortality for patients admitted to digital hospital
Timeframe: Up to 30 days, (date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 30 days)
2
30-day readmission rate
Timeframe: Up to 30 days (date of readmission from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 30 days)