Improving the Hospital-to-Home Transition Through Post-Discharge Virtual Visits in Primary Care

Telehealth Clinical Trial

Official title:

Improving the Hospital-to-Home Transition Through Post-Discharge Virtual Visits in Primary Care

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Suspended

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04236583
• Other study ID #: 19-09020793
• Status: Suspended
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: February 28, 2020
• Est. completion date: December 2021

Study information

• Verified date: April 2020
• Source: Weill Medical College of Cornell University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to test a new process for having a virtual visit with a primary care doctor after discharge from the hospital, instead of an in-person visit.

Description:

The goal of this project is to fully develop the protocol for identifying patients who would benefit from a virtual visit and develop the protocol for implementing the virtual visit. The value of this project is that the results will provide ample preliminary data for a future randomized controlled trial to determine the effectiveness of the intervention. This project will have an intervention group only. The hypothesis is that the intervention can be implemented in a way that is feasible and acceptable to providers and patients.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Suspended
• Enrollment: 25
• Est. completion date: December 2021
• Est. primary completion date: December 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Medical inpatients, age >=18, with an existing WCIMA attending as his or her PCP

• Patients with disposition to home

• Medically appropriate for a video visit (as determined by inpatient attending)

• Patients or caregivers must be able to enroll in MyChart before discharge, must be capable of using the Weill Cornell Connect app to do a video visit at home using broadband access or the equivalent (must own a device compatible with the app, e.g.

smartphone or tablet)

• English speaking

• Cognitively able to participate or Caregiver must be able to participate

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Telehealth

Intervention

Other:
• Telehealth
Post-discharge virtual visit

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Weill Cornell Medicine	New York	New York

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Proportion of patients meeting inclusion criteria over the study period out of all patients being discharged over the same time period		6 months post-intervention
Primary	Proportion of patients who consent to participate out of all those found to be eligible		6 months post-intervention
Primary	Proportion of patients who successfully schedule video visits out of all of those who consent		6 months post-intervention
Primary	Proportion of patients who successfully complete video visit out of all of those who scheduled		6 months post-intervention
Secondary	Patient satisfaction with the video visit	Based on a previously validated instrument (Parmanto et. al, Int J Telerehab 2016 Spring; 8(1): 3-10). Measured through 5-point likert scale,free response, multiple choice, and yes/no questions.	Within one month post-intervention
Secondary	Physician satisfaction with the video visit	Measured through multiple choice, yes/no, and free-response (only asked if specific responses are received) questions.	Within one month post-intervention
Secondary	Number of in-person visits instead of or in addition to video visit		6 months post-intervention