Implementation of the Hospital to Home (H2H) Heart Failure Initiative

NCT ID: NCT02148341

Last Updated: 2014-05-28

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

122 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2010-01-31

Study Completion Date

2013-07-31

Brief Summary

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This study determines if a community of practice of clinicians and quality improvement specialists can be used to implement a national quality initiative known as Hospital to Home (H2H). This quality initative is designed to reduced readmission rates for patients with heart failure or heart attack by improving the transition of care upon discharge.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Heart Failure

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Community of Practice Facilitation

Medical Centers assigned to this arm will recieive the communtiy of practice facilitation. In this process we will contact existing members of the community of practice (called the Heart Failure Network) at the facility as well as attempt to identify new providers and other staff at the facility with an interest in improving heart failure care. The facilitation includes: describing the national H2H program, providing talking points and strategies for local providers to obtain support from their local facility to initiate local projects related to H2H, providing a forum for successful sites to describe how they initiated projects to sites yet to initiate projects.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Community of Practice Facilitation

Intervention Type OTHER

Usual Care

Medical centers in this arm will hear of H2H through usual routs (calls with facilty Directors and Chiefs of staff).

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Usual Care

Intervention Type OTHER

Interventions

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Community of Practice Facilitation

Intervention Type OTHER

Usual Care

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* VA medical centers are the unit of randomization. A medical center will be included if had at least 20 patients discharged with a principal diagnosis of heart failure in 2008
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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VA Palo Alto Health Care System

FED

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Paul Heidenreich

Staff Physician

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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VA Palo Alto Health Care System

Palo Alto, California, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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SDP-09-160

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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