Study of Physician Awareness of and Communication About Patient Readmissions to the Hospital

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

500 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2007-02-28

Study Completion Date

2008-01-31

Brief Summary

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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.

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Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Hospital Readmission

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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1

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Automatic notification of readmissions

Intervention Type OTHER

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

2

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Automatic notification of readmissions

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

Intervention Type OTHER