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Remote Physician Care for Home Hospital Patients

A study testing Remote Visit in people with Infection and Heart Failure, run by Brigham and Women's Hospital at 2 sites in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

This study examines the implications of providing remote physician care to home hospitalized patients compared to usual home hospital care with in-person/in-home physician visits. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
What is being tested?
Remote Visit
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
172 participants
Where
2 sitesUnited States
Study dates
3 Aug 2019to 27 Apr 2020
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Resides within either a 5-mile or 20 minute driving radius of emergency department
  • Has capacity to consent to study OR can assent to study and has proxy who can consent
  • >= 18 years-old
  • Can identify a potential caregiver who agrees to stay with patient for first 24 hours of admission. Caregiver must be competent to call care team if a problem is evident to her/him. After 24 hours, this caregiver should be available for as-needed spot checks on the patient. This criterion may be waived for highly competent patients at the patient and clinician's discretion.
  • Primary or possible diagnosis of cellulitis, heart failure, complicated urinary tract infection, pneumonia, COPD/asthma, other infection, chronic kidney disease, malignant pain, diabetes and its complications, gout flare, hypertensive urgency, previously diagnosed atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response, anticoagulation needs, or a patient who desires only medical management that requires inpatient admission, as determined by the emergency room team.

Who cannot join

  • Undomiciled
  • No working heat (October-April), no working air conditioning if forecast > 80°F (June-September), or no running water
  • On methadone requiring daily pickup of medication
  • In police custody
  • Resides in facility that provides on-site medical care (e.g., skilled nursing facility)
  • Domestic violence screen positive
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  • Acute delirium, as determined by the Confusion Assessment Method2
  • Cannot establish peripheral access in emergency department (or access requires ultrasound guidance, unless point-of-care ultrasound is available)
  • Secondary condition: end-stage renal disease on hemodialysis, acute myocardial infarction, acute cerebral vascular accident, acute hemorrhage
  • Primary diagnosis requires multiple or routine administrations of intravenous narcotics for pain control
  • Cannot independently ambulate to bedside commode, unless home-based aides are available
  • As deemed by on-call MD, patient likely to require any of the following procedures: computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, endoscopic procedure, blood transfusion, cardiac stress test, or surgery
  • High risk for clinical deterioration
  • Home hospital census is full

Trial locations and contacts

2 sites in 1 country.

United States2 sites

  • Brigham and Women's Hospital

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02115

  • Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02130

Other trials in United States

About this study

Official title: Remote Physician Care for Home Hospital Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

This study examines the implications of providing remote physician care to home hospitalized patients compared to usual home hospital care with in-person/in-home physician visits.

Read the detailed description

Home hospital care is hospital-level care at home for acutely ill patients. In multiple publications, home hospital care delivered cost-effective, high-quality, excellent experience care with similar quality and safety as traditional hospital care. Most home hospital models require a licensed independent practitioner to see their patients physically in their home.

To further improve the efficiency and scalability of home hospital care, the investigators propose to test remote care, where the physician would provide care via a video interaction, instead of in-home/in-person care. The investigators propose a non-inferiority evaluation of this intervention.

Being tested
Remote Visit
Keywords
home hospital, hospital at home, hospital in the home
Medical subject headings
Infections, Heart Failure, Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive, Asthma, Renal Insufficiency, Chronic, Hypertensive Crisis

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Remote VisitOther

    After an initial in-home visit, the physician will see home hospitalized patients by facilitated video.

Study groups in NCT04080570
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Remote VisitExperimentalAfter an initial physical in-home visit, the physician will see home hospitalized patients by facilitated video each day.
Receives: Other: Remote Visit
In-Home VisitNo interventionThe physician will see home hospitalized patients physically in their homes each day, as is usual care.

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Adverse events, #

    The per patient count of adverse events, including fall, delirium, potentially preventable venous thromboembolism, new pressure ulcer, thrombophlebitis at peripheral IV site, catheter-associated urinary tract infection, new Clostridium difficile, new methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, new arrhythmia, hypokalemia, acute kidney injury, transfer back to hospital, mortality (unplanned) during admission, mortality (unplanned) 30-day post-discharge.

    Measured: From date of admission to date of discharge (except for 30-day mortality), an expected average of 4 days

Secondary outcomes (3)

  1. Unplanned readmission after index admission, y/n

    Measured: Day of discharge to 30 days later

  2. Picker experience questionnaire, score

    Score between 0 and 15, with higher scores signifying better experience

    Measured: Day of discharge, an expected average of 4 days

  3. Global experience, score

    Score between 0 and 10, with higher scores signifying better experience

    Measured: Day of discharge, an expected average of 4 days

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted6 Sep 2019
  2. Study start3 Aug 2019
  3. Primary completion27 Apr 2020
  4. Study completion27 Apr 2020

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
172 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT04080570
Sponsor's protocol ID
P002583
Status last verified
Nov 2020
First submitted
4 Sep 2019
Last updated
30 Nov 2020
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • Leff B, Burton L, Mader SL, Naughton B, Burl J, Inouye SK, Greenough WB 3rd, Guido S, Langston C, Frick KD, Steinwachs D, Burton JR. Hospital at home: feasibility and outcomes of a program to provide hospital-level care at home for acutely ill older patients. Ann Intern Med. 2005 Dec 6;143(11):798-808. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-143-11-200512060-00008.

    PubMed 16330791

  • Cryer L, Shannon SB, Van Amsterdam M, Leff B. Costs for 'hospital at home' patients were 19 percent lower, with equal or better outcomes compared to similar inpatients. Health Aff (Millwood). 2012 Jun;31(6):1237-43. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2011.1132.

    PubMed 22665835

  • Montalto M. The 500-bed hospital that isn't there: the Victorian Department of Health review of the Hospital in the Home program. Med J Aust. 2010 Nov 15;193(10):598-601. doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb04070.x.

    PubMed 21077817

  • Levine DM, Ouchi K, Blanchfield B, Diamond K, Licurse A, Pu CT, Schnipper JL. Hospital-Level Care at Home for Acutely Ill Adults: a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. J Gen Intern Med. 2018 May;33(5):729-736. doi: 10.1007/s11606-018-4307-z. Epub 2018 Feb 6.

    PubMed 29411238

  • Federman AD, Soones T, DeCherrie LV, Leff B, Siu AL. Association of a Bundled Hospital-at-Home and 30-Day Postacute Transitional Care Program With Clinical Outcomes and Patient Experiences. JAMA Intern Med. 2018 Aug 1;178(8):1033-1040. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.2562.

    PubMed 29946693

  • Levine DM, Paz M, Burke K, Beaumont R, Boxer RB, Morris CA, Britton KA, Orav EJ, Schnipper JL. Remote vs In-home Physician Visits for Hospital-Level Care at Home: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Aug 1;5(8):e2229067. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.29067.

    PubMed 36040741

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing Remote Visit in people with Infection and Heart Failure, run by Brigham and Women's Hospital at 2 sites in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 5 inclusion and 14 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 30 Nov 2020. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 2 sites in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Adverse events, # (time frame: From date of admission to date of discharge (except for 30-day mortality), an expected average of 4 days). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT04080570, which also lists 6 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 30 Nov 2020; AzTrials last refreshed its copy on 7 Nov 2026.

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