GrandAides; a Workforce Innovation to Address Post Acute Care

Heart Failure Clinical Trial

Official title:

GrandAides; a Workforce Innovation to Address Post Acute Care

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04966442
• Other study ID #: Temple University
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 1, 2014
• Est. completion date: March 31, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: July 2021
• Source: Temple University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Randomized controlled trial with two groups looking at post hospital care for patients who were admitted with congestive heart failure. The control group includes standard of care provided to the patients after discharge including a hospital employed community health worker. The intervention group receives a specially trained GrandAide following the GrandAide model for post acute care. Difference in ER visits and readmissions was measured.

Description:

GrandAides program is a credible messenger community health worker based program that assumes a community health worker from the community who has specialized education around a certain chronic condition will be able to support patients in the outpatient setting more effectively than current standard of care. In this study a GrandAide visited a patient discharged from the hospital in their home for 4 weeks providing education, checking vital signs, and assisting with communication with the cardiologist. The study measured the difference in hospital admissions and ER visits between the group that was assigned a GrandAid and the group that took part in standard care. The groups were assigned randomly. The difference was calculated using one and two tailed t-test results.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 98
• Est. completion date: March 31, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: March 31, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 99 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

Clinical diagnosis of heart failure Lives in 6 zipcode catchment area of Temple University Hospital Is followed by Temple Cardiology

Exclusion Criteria:

End Stage Renal Disease Housed in a Skilled Nursing Facility Substance Use Disorder Unable to give consent Doesn't speak English Under age 18

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Heart Failure

Intervention

Behavioral:
• GrandAides
Enhanced post acute care for patients recently admitted for congestive heart failure

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Temple University

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	ER visits	number of ER visits	3 years