NCT07364825

Acute Psychiatric Care at Home for Lower-risk Patients With Acute Psychiatric Illness Who Require Inpatient Care

Behavioral Health Home Hospital: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 45 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Brigham and Women's Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this pilot randomized controlled trial is to learn if adult patients with acute psychiatric conditions can receive hospital-level care at home. The main question it aims to answer is: What percentage of eligible patients agree to enroll and be randomized to behavioral health home hospital (intervention) or the brick-and-mortar hospital (control)?

Detailed description

Behavioral Health Home Hospital (BHH) aims to investigate the feasibility of providing acute psychiatric care at home for a highly selected lower-risk subset. Eligible patients will be admitted to behavioral health home hospital. Subjects include a highly selected lower-risk subset of patients (18 years of age or older) that require hospitalization for an acute psychiatric condition, caregivers (18 years of age or older) of the highly selected lower-risk subset of patients that require hospitalization of an acute psychiatric condition, and clinicians that provide care to intervention and control patients.

Conditions

• Psychosis
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Behavioral and Psychiatric Symptoms of Dementia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Behavioral Health Home Hospital	Patients receive hospital level psychiatric care in their home

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-01-05
• Primary completion: 2026-04-30
• Completion: 2026-05-30
• First posted: 2026-01-23
• Last updated: 2026-03-17

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: United States