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Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

NCT number NCT00550264
Other study ID # 2006P001975; BWH
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase N/A
First received October 25, 2007
Last updated June 27, 2011
Start date February 2007
Est. completion date January 2008

Study information

Verified date June 2011
Source Brigham and Women's Hospital
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority United States: Institutional Review Board
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 500
Est. completion date January 2008
Est. primary completion date January 2008
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender Both
Age group 18 Years and older
Eligibility 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

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

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.

Locations

Country Name City State
United States Brigham & Women's Hospital Boston Massachusetts

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Risk Management Foundation

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (1)

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. doi: 10.1007/s11606-008-0848-x. Epub 2008 Nov 4. — View Citation

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Physician Awareness and Communication Rates Within 24 hours of readmission time Yes
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