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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
1266 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2017-02-01
2019-12-31
Brief Summary
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The proportion of older people is rapidly growing. These changes represent a challenge for healthcare systems. 20% of all hospital admitted patients ≥ 65 years are readmitted within the first 30 days after discharge. Prior transitional care research has mainly focused on either hospital-based or community-based interventions with no or little intervention elements in both settings. The results show different effects on readmission rates. This calls for new research on trans-sectorial interventions with both pre- and post-discharge elements.
Detailed Description
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Non-randomized controlled trial.
Participants For eligibility criteria - see elsewhere. Intervention group • Patients living in Odder, Skanderborg or Hedensted municipality
Control group
• Patients living in Horsens municipality
Follow-Home Intervention
The intervention group receives following intervention:
If possible, all included participants are physically followed home by a hospital-based project worker on the day of discharge. During the visit, the focus is on: basic human needs, medication review reconciliation, and a comprehensive geriatric assessment. Problems, challenges and concerns are discussed. Finally, a conference for the following working day is arranged either as a physical visit or a video conference. The patient, relatives, community-based nurse and project worker are invited to participate and health status and challenges are discussed They are recommended to contact the project worker about health and practical issues up to 7 days after discharge where the intervention ends. Subsequently, the responsibility for treatment and care is assigned to the GP and home healthcare provider.
Usual care
Patients in the control group recieves the following usual discharge procedure:
On the day of discharge, the hospital-based nurse digitally sends a summery of the hospital stay and a treatment and care plan to the community-based nurse. If needed, the hospital-based nurse contacts the community-based nurse by phone as a supplement to the plan. Finally, a discharge letter conducted by the hospital-based doctor is digitally sent to the GP.
Method:
Inclusion of participants is consecutive. Inclusion period was between 01/02/17 to 31/12/19. In total, approximately 1200 patients were included .
Data collection Outcome data will be retrieved from CROSS-TRACKS database at 30 days after discharge from index admission.
Analysis
Intervention and Control group will be matched on 3 variables on individual level:
* CCI
* Index admission period: +/- 3-4 weeks
* Sex
All readmissions are included in the analysis (not only first time readmissions). That means that one patient can be included several times.
Logistic regression adjusted for possible confounders will be used when analysing the outcomes. Confounders are chosen through a study specific DAG.
Sub-group analysis will be conducted according to:
* Age
* Sex
* Housing
* Civil status
* Social status
* Length of hospital stay in index admission
* Comorbidity
* Diagnosis
* Ect.
Conditions
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Keywords
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Study Design
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NON_RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
PREVENTION
NONE
Study Groups
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Follow Home Intervention
If possible, all included participants are physically followed home by a hospital-based project worker on the day of discharge. During the visit, the focus is on: basic human needs, medication review reconciliation, and a comprehensive geriatric assessment. Problems, challenges and concerns are discussed. Finally, a conference for the following working day is arranged either as a physical visit or a video conference. The patient, relatives, community-based nurse and project worker are invited to participate and health status and challenges are discussed They are recommended to contact the project worker about health and practical issues up to 7 days after discharge where the intervention ends. Subsequently, the responsibility for treatment and care is assigned to the GP and home healthcare provider.
Follow-Home-intervention
x
Control
On the day of discharge, the hospital-based nurse digitally sends a summary of the hospital stay and a treatment and care plan to the community-based nurse. If needed, the hospital-based nurse contacts the community-based nurse by phone as a supplement to the plan. Finally, a discharge letter conducted by the hospital-based doctor is digitally sent to the GP
No interventions assigned to this group
Interventions
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Follow-Home-intervention
x
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Living in the municipalities of Odder, Skanderborg, Hedensted or Horsens
* Admitted for ≥48 hours
* Discharged from Medical Ward 1 (MSA1) at Horsens Regional Hospital (HRH)
Exclusion Criteria
* Patients with cerebrovascular events
* Readmitted to another hospital
* Not able to speak and understand Danish
75 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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University of Aarhus
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Merete Gregersen, PHD
Role: STUDY_CHAIR
Aarhus University Hospital
Locations
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Horsens Regional Hospital
Horsens, , Denmark
Countries
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References
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Rasmussen LF, Barat I, Riis AH, Gregersen M, Grode L. Effects of a transitional care intervention on readmission among older medical inpatients: a quasi-experimental study. Eur Geriatr Med. 2023 Feb;14(1):131-144. doi: 10.1007/s41999-022-00730-5. Epub 2022 Dec 23.
Other Identifiers
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FH2017-2019
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id