Status:
COMPLETED
Support From Hospital to Home for Elders: A Randomized Controlled Study
Lead Sponsor:
University of California, San Francisco
Collaborating Sponsors:
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Conditions:
Hospital Readmissions
Eligibility:
All Genders
55+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The investigators will randomize 700 non-psychiatric, non-obstetric, non-surgical patients aged 55 years and older at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) to usual care (ten days of prescription medi...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- patients age 55 and older
- admitted to the general medicine, family medicine, cardiology, and neurology services at San Francisco General Hospital,
- able to communicate in either English, Spanish, Mandarin or Cantonese,
- attending physicians agree to the patient's participation.
- Patients must be able to demonstrate an understanding of the study's goals through a set of teach back questions included in the consent process.
Exclusion
- transferred from an outside hospital;
- admitted for a planned hospitalization (e.g. chemotherapy, a planned surgery)
- requiring hospice, nursing home, rehab or other institutional settings (i.e. expected by the physician team to be discharged to skilled nursing facilities) - those unable to independently consent (i.e. severely cognitively impaired, delirious, deaf, or involuntarily hospitalized because of severe mental illness)
- unable to understand English, Spanish or Cantonese (as reported by medical teams or unable to complete the consent teach-back process)
- less than age 55
- aphasic
- otherwise excluded by the medical team
- participated in the pilot project of this intervention.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
July 1 2010
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
July 1 2013
Estimated Enrollment :
699 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01221532
Start Date
July 1 2010
End Date
July 1 2013
Last Update
July 9 2013
Active Locations (1)
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San Francisco General Hospital
San Francisco, California, United States, 94110