Cardiac Condition Clinical Trial
Official title:
Pilot Intervention to Improve the Transition From Hospital to Home
The study had three parts:
Part 1: Patients (or their home caretakers) who live outside of Denver and receive their
primary care at a location other than the Denver VAMC were interviewed after their
discharge. The interview covered the patient's perspective about the transition of their
medical care from the Denver VA to their primary care facility.
Part 2: Primary care providers from the VA facilities that refer patients to the Denver VA
were interviewed regarding their opinions of transition process from the Denver VA back to
the primary care VA facilities.
Part 3: The data from the above interviews were used to develop an intervention to improve
the transition process from the Denver VA back to the primary care VA facilities.
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 19 |
Est. completion date | December 2012 |
Est. primary completion date | December 2012 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | Both |
Age group | 18 Years to 90 Years |
Eligibility |
Inclusion Criteria: Aims 1 and 3: - Patients transferred from primary care VA facilities (i.e., Cheyenne, Grand Junction, Sheridan, Ft. Harrison) for cardiac care (e.g., heart failure, acute myocardial infarction) or procedures (coronary angiography, pacemaker implantation) to the Denver VAMC and discharged home to follow-up with their primary care provider, were eligible. Aim 2: - Providers from VA primary care facilities, (i.e., Cheyenne, Grand Junction, Sheridan, and Ft. Harrison) who took care of patients discharged from the Denver VAMC for cardiology care, were eligible for the qualitative interviews. Exclusion Criteria: Aims 1 and 3: - Exclusion criteria included: - Planned discharge to nursing home or skilled nursing facility; - Irreversible, non-cardiac medical condition (e.g. metastatic cancer) likely to affect 6-month survival or ability to execute study protocol; - Lack of telephone/ cell phone; and - VA is not their primary source of care or their PCP is not in the VA system. Aim 2: There were exclusion criteria. |
Allocation: Non-Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
Country | Name | City | State |
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United States | VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System, Denver, CO | Denver | Colorado |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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VA Office of Research and Development |
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Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | See Primary Outcome Description Below | Follow up appointment within 2 weeks of discharge back to their primary care providers at a primary care facility from a tertiary referral center. | Within 2 weeks of discharge | No |