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

This study has been completed.
Sponsor:
Collaborator:
Harvard Risk Management Foundation
Information provided by:
Brigham and Women's Hospital
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT00550264
First received: October 25, 2007
Last updated: June 27, 2011
Last verified: June 2011
History of Changes

October 25, 2007
June 27, 2011
February 2007
January 2008   (final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Physician Awareness and Communication Rates [ Time Frame: Within 24 hours of readmission time ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
Physician Awareness and Communication Rates
Complete list of historical versions of study NCT00550264 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
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Study of Physician Awareness of and Communication About Patient Readmissions to the Hospital
Physician Awareness of and Communication About Hospital Readmissions

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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Interventional
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Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Hospital Readmission
Other: 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.
  • Experimental: 1
    Intervention: Other: Automatic notification of readmissions
  • No Intervention: 2
Roy CL, Kachalia A, Woolf S, Burdick E, Karson A, Gandhi TK. Hospital readmissions: physician awareness and communication practices. J Gen Intern Med. 2009 Mar;24(3):374-80. Epub 2008 Nov 4.

*   Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline.
 
Completed
500
January 2008
January 2008   (final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Inclusion Criteria:

  • All patients admitted to the general medicine service at two academic medical centers, and unexpectedly readmitted within 14 days.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients readmitted to the same physician(s), or those whose readmission was planned
Both
18 Years and older
No
Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects
United States
 
NCT00550264
2006P001975; BWH
No
Christopher L. Roy, MD, Brigham & Women's Hospital
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Risk Management Foundation
Principal Investigator: Christopher L Roy, MD Brigham and Women's Hospital
Brigham and Women's Hospital
June 2011

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