NCT00550264

Brief Summary

Patients admitted to inpatient medicine services often require early hospital readmission, and often they are readmitted to different physician or team, potentially without the knowledge of the prior physician or team. Thus, physicians may lose the opportunity to share valuable information about readmitted patients, which may be detrimental to continuity of care and patient safety. The purpose of this study is to determine baseline awareness and communication rates among physicians regarding readmissions, and then measure the effect of automatic notification on these rates.

Trial Health

87
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Trial Health Score

Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach

Enrollment
500

participants targeted

Target at P75+ for not_applicable

Timeline
Completed

Started Feb 2007

Geographic Reach
1 country

1 active site

Status
completed

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Trial Relationships

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Study Timeline

Key milestones and dates

Study Start

First participant enrolled

February 1, 2007

Completed
9 months until next milestone

First Submitted

Initial submission to the registry

October 25, 2007

Completed
4 days until next milestone

First Posted

Study publicly available on registry

October 29, 2007

Completed
2 months until next milestone

Primary Completion

Last participant's last visit for primary outcome

January 1, 2008

Completed
Same day until next milestone

Study Completion

Last participant's last visit for all outcomes

January 1, 2008

Completed
Last Updated

June 28, 2011

Status Verified

June 1, 2011

Enrollment Period

11 months

First QC Date

October 25, 2007

Last Update Submit

June 27, 2011

Conditions

Hospital Readmission

Keywords

Hospital ReadmissionContinuity of CareQuality of Health Care

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

  • Physician Awareness and Communication Rates

    Within 24 hours of readmission time

Study Arms (2)

1

EXPERIMENTAL
Other: Automatic notification of readmissions

2

NO INTERVENTION

Interventions

Automatic notification of readmissionsOTHER

The experimental group physicians will receive automatic e-mail notification when a patient is readmitted, including contact information for the readmitting team.

1

Eligibility Criteria

Age18 Years+
Sexall
Healthy VolunteersNo
Age GroupsAdult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

  • All patients admitted to the general medicine service at two academic medical centers, and unexpectedly readmitted within 14 days.

You may not qualify if:

  • Patients readmitted to the same physician(s), or those whose readmission was planned

Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Study Sites (1)

Brigham & Women's Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, United States

Location

Related Publications (1)

  • Roy CL, Kachalia A, Woolf S, Burdick E, Karson A, Gandhi TK. Hospital readmissions: physician awareness and communication practices. J Gen Intern Med. 2009 Mar;24(3):374-80. doi: 10.1007/s11606-008-0848-x. Epub 2008 Nov 4.

    PMID: 18982395BACKGROUND

Study Officials

  • Christopher L Roy, MD

    Brigham and Women's Hospital

    PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

Study Type
interventional
Phase
not applicable
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
NONE
Intervention Model
SINGLE GROUP
Sponsor Type
OTHER

Study Record Dates

First Submitted

October 25, 2007

First Posted

October 29, 2007

Study Start

February 1, 2007

Primary Completion

January 1, 2008

Study Completion

January 1, 2008

Last Updated

June 28, 2011

Record last verified: 2011-06

Locations

US(1)