Enrolling by invitation NCT05952999
Analysis of the Virtual Acute Care at Home Experience
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Digital Care Solution as supportive personalized care, Traditional Hospital Level Care.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Conditions, Infections, Heart Failure, Renal and Urinary Disorders. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Examining the Intervention Effectiveness of Hospital at Home for Improving Health Outcomes and Experiences for Patients, Clinicians, and Caregivers
Overview
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.
Detailed description
The investigators will conduct a mixed-methods quasi-experimental research study that will explore the effectiveness of the Hospital at home programs using qualitative interviews and quantitative data as a means to also conduct a process evaluation related to the implementation and efficacy of Hospital at Home programs. The purpose of this pragmatic study is to inform scalability beyond the initial site for implementation within a large healthcare system with a diverse patient population located in various communities, including rural and urban locations.
Interventions
- Other Digital Care Solution as supportive personalized care
Patients will need to meet screening and inclusion criteria at time of enrollment. As a pragmatic study, researchers will not determine criteria or management of care aspects for patients. - Other Traditional Hospital Level Care
Patients will be cared for in the inpatient setting for management of diseases that meet screening and inclusion criteria at time of enrollment for hospital at home. As a pragmatic study, researchers will not determine criteria or management of care aspects for patients.
Primary outcome measures
- Composite of all-cause mortality for patients admitted to digital hospital [Time frame: Up to 30 days, (date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 30 days)]
- 30-day readmission rate [Time frame: Up to 30 days (date of readmission from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 30 days)]
- Patient Satisfaction at discharge [Time frame: up to 1 week]
- Patient Perception of Digital Care at discharge [Time frame: up to 1 week]
Secondary outcome measures (4)
- Escalations (for management and treatment of early decompensation) [Time frame: up to 2 weeks]
- Unplanned readmission within 30-days of discharge [Time frame: up to 30 days]
- Length of Stay [Time frame: assessed up to 2 weeks]
- Number of participants with Hospital Acquired Infections [Time frame: assessed up to 1 week]
Eligibility criteria
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 the basis of sex or race
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- OSF HealthCare — Peoria
Publications
- Arsenault-Lapierre G, Henein M, Gaid D, Le Berre M, Gore G, Vedel I. Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Jun 1;4(6):e2111568. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.11568. PMID 34100939
- Brody AA, Arbaje AI, DeCherrie LV, Federman AD, Leff B, Siu AL. Starting Up a Hospital at Home Program: Facilitators and Barriers to Implementation. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2019 Mar;67(3):588-595. doi: 10.1111/jgs.15782. Epub 2019 Feb 8. PMID 30735244
- Chua CMS, Ko SQ, Lai YF, Lim YW, Shorey S. Perceptions of Hospital-at-Home Among Stakeholders: a Meta-synthesis. J Gen Intern Med. 2022 Feb;37(3):637-650. doi: 10.1007/s11606-021-07065-0. Epub 2021 Aug 6. PMID 34363185
- Cooling M, Klein CJ, Pierce LM, Delinski N, Lotz A, Vozenilek JA. Access to Care: End-to-End Digital Response for COVID-19 Care Delivery. J Nurse Pract. 2022 Feb;18(2):232-235. doi: 10.1016/j.nurpra.2021.09.011. Epub 2021 Sep 25. PMID 34608377
- Dismore LL, Echevarria C, van Wersch A, Gibson J, Bourke S. What are the positive drivers and potential barriers to implementation of hospital at home selected by low-risk DECAF score in the UK: a qualitative study embedded within a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 2019 Apr 4;9(4):e026609. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-026609. PMID 30948606
- Federman AD, Soones T, DeCherrie LV, Leff B, Siu AL. Association of a Bundled Hospital-at-Home and 30-Day Postacute Transitional Care Program With Clinical Outcomes and Patient Experiences. JAMA Intern Med. 2018 Aug 1;178(8):1033-1040. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.2562. PMID 29946693
- Leff B, Burton L, Mader SL, Naughton B, Burl J, Inouye SK, Greenough WB 3rd, Guido S, Langston C, Frick KD, Steinwachs D, Burton JR. Hospital at home: feasibility and outcomes of a program to provide hospital-level care at home for acutely ill older patients. Ann Intern Med. 2005 Dec 6;143(11):798-808. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-143-11-200512060-00008. PMID 16330791
- Savundranayagam MY, Montgomery RJ, Kosloski K. A dimensional analysis of caregiver burden among spouses and adult children. Gerontologist. 2011 Jun;51(3):321-31. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnq102. Epub 2010 Dec 6. PMID 21135026
Identifiers
NCT: NCT05952999 · 2015255