NCT02081846

Hospital to Home Outcomes

Hospital to Home Outcomes (H2O): A Study to Improve the Fluidity of Transitions Between Hospital and Home

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,500 (actual)
• Sponsor: Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Home Nurse Visit post discharge.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Focus: Hospitalized Patients

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Nurse Home Visit	We will complete a single center, parallel, randomized, standard-of-care-controlled prospective study to determine the efficacy of a nurse home visit program, an intervention adapted from those studied in other populations (i.e., adults, high-risk infants) and re-engineered through Aim 2, in improving pediatric patient transitions from hospital to home
OTHER	Standard of Care	Control patients will be randomized to receive standard-of-care at discharge. This care at our institution includes pediatric hospitalist to PCP (primary care physician) verbal and written communication prior to discharge, written documentation for the family regarding prescribed medication regimen, recommended follow-up with outpatient PCP and relevant consultant(s), and delivery of prescribed medications from the hospital pharmacy to the patient's bedside.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-02-02
• Primary completion: 2017-06-30
• Completion: 2017-06-30
• First posted: 2014-03-07
• Last updated: 2019-04-16
• Results posted: 2019-03-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States