Status:
COMPLETED
The Care Transitions Intervention
Lead Sponsor:
University of Colorado, Denver
Collaborating Sponsors:
The John A. Hartford Foundation
Conditions:
Continuity of Patient Care
Eligibility:
All Genders
65+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
This intervention tests whether encouraging older patients and their caregivers to assert a more active role in their care transitions could improve clinical outcomes. Patients are supported by a nurs...
Detailed Description
See above.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- To be eligible for this study, patients from the participating delivery system had to: 1) be age 65 years or older, 2) be admitted to one of the participating delivery system's contract hospitals during the study period for a non-psychiatrically-related condition, 3) be community-dwelling (i.e., not from a long-term care facility), 4) reside within a predefined geographic radius of the hospital (thereby making a home visit feasible), 5) have a working telephone, 6) be English-speaking, 7) show no documentation of dementia in the medical record, 8) have no plans to enter hospice, 9) not be participating in another research protocol, and 10) have documented in their medical record at least one of 11 diagnoses, including stroke, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, cardiac arrhythmias, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, spinal stenosis, hip fracture, peripheral vascular disease, deep venous thrombosis, or pulmonary embolism.
Exclusion
- Those who did not meet the inclusion criteria.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
September 1 2002
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
End Date :
August 1 2003
Estimated Enrollment :
1400 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00244491
Start Date
September 1 2002
End Date
August 1 2003
Last Update
August 13 2015
Active Locations (1)
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University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Denver, Colorado, United States, 80262