Clinical trials: Hospital Readmissions
Drug Use, Alcohol Use
Specialized Community Disease Management to Reduce Substance Use and Hospital Readmissions
This study will assess Specialized Community Disease Management (SCDM), an intervention which employs various evidence-based strategies to engage substance using co-morbid patients while in the hospital and follow them into the…
- Conditions
- Drug Use, Alcohol Use, Congestive Heart Failure, Pneumonia
- Trial name
- NCT02059005
- Testing
- Specialized Community Disease Management, Treatment As Usual
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 97 people
- Sponsor
- Treatment Research Institute
Cross-Sectional Study
The Pharmacist Follows You and Your Medication From Hospital to Your Daily Life and Investigate What This Means to You
Background It is well known that the transfer of a patient from hospital to the general practitioner is related with mistakes in the medication of the patient.
- Trial name
- NCT03079375
- Testing
- basic intervention, extended intervention
- Volunteers
- 1,499 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Lene V. Ravn-Nielsen
Heart Failure, Heart Failure Hospitalization
Teach-Back Discharge Education to Improve Self-Care and Reduce 30-Day Readmissions in Heart Failure Patients
This study aimed to improve how patients with heart failure understand and manage their condition after leaving the hospital. Many heart failure patients are readmitted within 30 days due to confusion about their discharge…
- Conditions
- Heart Failure, Heart Failure Hospitalization, Readmission, Hospital
- Trial name
- NCT07280208
- Testing
- Teach-Back Discharge Education
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 57 people
- Sponsor
- Nova Southeastern University
Hearing Loss, Emergency Service
Hearing Impairment, Strategies, and Outcomes in Emergency Departments
Aim 1: Establish the feasibility of screening for hearing loss in the ED Aim 2: Determine the acceptability of the screening procedure (among the ED population) Aim 3: Derive a preliminary estimate of the effect size of primary…
- Conditions
- Hearing Loss, Emergency Service, Hospital Readmission
- Trial name
- Hear-VA (NCT03594500)
- Testing
- PockeTalker, No PockeTalker
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 133 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Healthcare Associated Infections, Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus
Active Bathing to Eliminate Infection (ABATE Infection) Trial
The ABATE Infection Project is a cluster randomized trial of hospitals to compare two quality improvement strategies to reduce multi-drug resistant organisms and healthcare-associated infections in non-critical care units.
- Conditions
- Healthcare Associated Infections, Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, Multi Drug Resistant Organisms
- Trial name
- ABATE (NCT02063867)
- Testing
- Arm 2: Decolonization
- Where
- 52 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 53 people
- Sponsor
- University of California, Irvine
Adverse Events, Readmissions
Relative Patient Benefits of a Hospital-PCMH Collaboration Within an ACO to Improve Care Transitions
The objective of this study is to design and implement a set of procedures (the intervention) to improve patients' experiences when they are discharged home from the hospital.
- Conditions
- Adverse Events, Readmissions, Patient Engagement
- Trial name
- NCT02130570
- Testing
- Multi-Model Intensive Discharge Intervention
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 1,679 people
- Sponsor
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
Study Focus: 30-day Rehospitalizations Among At-risk Older Adults Randomized to a Social Work-driven Care Transitions Intervention, Heart Disease
Social Work Intervention Focused on Transitions
In response to Program Announcement (PA)-09-164, "NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Program (R21) a randomized pilot study testing the efficacy of SWIFT: Social Work Intervention Focused on Transitions among at-risk…
- Conditions
- Study Focus: 30-day Rehospitalizations Among At-risk Older Adults Randomized to a Social Work-driven Care Transitions Intervention, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Hypertension
- Trial name
- SWIFT (NCT02232126)
- Testing
- SWIFT home intervention
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 181 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Southern California