Interventions to Improve HIV Care Engagement After Hospital Discharge

HIV/AIDS Clinical Trial

Official title:

Interventions to Improve HIV Care Engagement Within 30 Days After Hospital Discharge Among HIV-infected Patients

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02578654
• Other study ID #: MTU-EC-IM-2-082/57
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: October 14, 2015
• Last updated: April 22, 2016
• Start date: November 2012
• Est. completion date: April 2016

Study information

• Verified date: April 2016
• Source: Thammasat University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Thailand: Ethics Committee
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

A quasi-experitmental study of the efficacy interventions, including additional HIV care team daily inpatient round and three telephone calls to remind the upcoming clinic appointment, in improving HIV care engagement within 30 days after hospital discharge among HIV-infected patients.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 240
• Est. completion date: April 2016
• Est. primary completion date: April 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• HIV-infected patients hospitalized at Thammasat University Hospital during the study period

Exclusion Criteria:

• The patients who die during admission, are readmitted prior to 30 days after discharge or with incomplete data

• Readmission episodes of the same enrolled patients during the study period

Study Design

Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Health Services Research

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• HIV/AIDS

Intervention

Other:
• Strategies to improve HIV care engagement
Additional HIV care team daily inpatient round and three telephone calls to remind the upcoming clinic appointment. These interventions are specifically added on "routine care" during the post-intervention period. The routine care does not include the additional round and the three telephone calls and is assessed during the pre-intervention period.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Thailand	Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University	Pathumthani

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Thammasat University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Thailand, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Number of HIV-infected patients who come to the designated HIV clinic for follow-up within 30 days after hospital discharge divided by the total number of enrolled HIV-infected patients		30 days	No
Secondary	Factors associated with no follow-up withing 30 days after hospital discharge(analyzed in multivariable logistic regression)		30 days	No