Quality of Life Clinical Trial
Official title:
Effectiveness and Clinical Outcomes of Municipal Acute Wards Versus a General Hospital: a Multicenter, Randomized Controlled Trial
Verified date | September 2021 |
Source | Ostfold University College |
Contact | n/a |
Is FDA regulated | No |
Health authority | |
Study type | Interventional |
Demographic changes in the industrialized world are expected to prompt a need for better organized and more efficient health care services. In order to curb costs, health care providers in many countries are searching for viable alternatives to hospitalizations. Norwegian white papers and reform documents presume that the municipalities will play a central role in meeting the growth in demand for health services. Central public policy documents and national research strategies highlight that we need pathways characterized by good quality and safe care, and which are responsive to needs, based on user involvement, continuity of care and successful collaboration within and between service levels. The 2012 Coordination Reform placed new responsibilities on municipalities in the delivery of primary health care services and on hospitals as deliverers of specialist services, as well as on the integration and collaboration between the two organizational levels. This reform mandates that all 428 Norwegian municipalities are obliged to establish or co-operate on establishing Municipal Acute Wards (MAW) (In Norwegian: Kommunale akutte døgnplasser), so as to alleviate pressure on hospitals. However, the research basis for these units is relatively weak. Hence, there is little information on the outcomes regarding the quality, cost-effectiveness, patient-reported as well as personnel-reported outcomes of this new level of care. This study aims at assessing the outcome of admissions to MAWs compared to a general hospital for patients in need of acute care, that can be treated at a lower and decentralized level of health care, with potentially less resources than traditional hospitalizations. The study will use a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) design. It builds on previous research and systematic reviews, and aims to assess several outcomes, including health-related quality of life (HRQoL), patient experiences, cost-effectiveness, short-term mortality and morbidity, and draws on linkages to national registers.
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 183 |
Est. completion date | January 31, 2021 |
Est. primary completion date | January 31, 2021 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | All |
Age group | 18 Years and older |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: - Age =18 years - Ability to provide written, informed consent - Eligible for admission at a MAW according to established admission criteria - Assessed and referred by a GP, by a physician at the local Casualty (Legevaktslege), or a physician in a nursing home on the same day Exclusion Criteria: - Psychiatric or cognitive impairment - No Norwegian national identification number - Acute disability in elderly, requiring extensive diagnostic procedures - Patients admitted to the MAW via the diagnostic loop* - Previous admission to a MAW during the project period (to prevent patients being included more than once in the project) - Insufficient Norwegian language skills to respond to the questionnaires |
Country | Name | City | State |
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Norway | Ostfold Hospital Trust | Sarpsborg | Østfold |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Ostfold University College | Extrastiftelsen, Akersgatab28, No-0158Oslo, Norway, Ostfold Hospital Trust, The National Association for Heart and Lung Disease, Jessheim, Norway, University Hospital, Akershus, University of Oslo |
Norway,
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Patient experiences, NORPEQ | Norwegian Patient Experience Questionnaire. Six of the eight NORPEQ items sum to produce an overall scale from 0 to 100, where 100 is the best possible experience of care. If respondents had missing values on more than half of the items, mean scores will be imputed. | 2-4 weeks after discharge | |
Secondary | 30-day mortality | Number of deaths within 30 days after discharge, all causes | 30 days | |
Secondary | 30-day re-admission | Number of re-admissions to hospital or MAW within 30 days after discharge, all causes | 30 days | |
Secondary | Length of stay | Number of days patients are admitted to either hospital or MAW | 8 days | |
Secondary | Number of inpatients stays | Number of inpatient stays in a healthcare institution | 3 months | |
Secondary | Transfer of patients between MAW and hospital | Number of patients transferred from MAW to hospital | 1,5 year | |
Secondary | Patient experiences | As measured by the NORPEQ questionnaire. The questionnaire consist of eight items. The overall scale goes from 0 to 100, where 100 is the best possible experience of care.
The |
4 weeks after discharge | |
Secondary | Health status as assessed with the RAND-12 instrument | The RAND-12 health status inventory (aka SF-12) is a commonly used health status instrument, which was developed as part of the Medical outcomes study in the 1980s. It uses 12 items from the SF-36 and can be aggregated to a physical health component score and an mental health component score. | 4 weeks after discharge | |
Secondary | Costs and cost-effectiveness | Costs will be estimated for the patients' hospital stays as
[Actual inpatient-days*(DRG cost/National average LOS for the DRG)], and for each admission to a MAW as [Actual inpatient-days*Total annual MAW cost/Total number of MAW inpatient-days)]. |
1,5 year | |
Secondary | Eq5D5L | Health related quality of life. The descriptive system comprises five dimensions: mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression. Each dimension has 5 levels: no problems, slight problems, moderate problems, severe problems and extreme problems. The patient is asked to indicate his/her health state by ticking the box next to the most appropriate statement in each of the five dimensions. This decision results in a 1-digit number that expresses the level selected for that dimension. The digits for the five dimensions can be combined into a 5-digit number that describes the patient's health state.
The EQ VAS records the patient's self-rated health on a vertical visual analogue scale, where the endpoints are labelled 'The best health you can imagine' and 'The worst health you can imagine'. The VAS can be used as a quantitative measure of health outcome that reflect the patient's own judgement |
1,5 year |
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