Clinical trial NCT02081846: Hospital to Home Outcomes
Official title: Hospital to Home Outcomes (H2O): A Study to Improve the Fluidity of Transitions Between Hospital and Home
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Focus: Hospitalized Patients
Keywords: transitions of care
reutilization
home nurse visit
focus groups
quality improvement
Lead sponsor: Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
First posted: 2014-03-07
Enrollment: 1500
Sex: ALL
Maximum age (years): 18
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: Home Nurse Visit post discharge.

Detailed description: To identify barriers to successful transitions that are most meaningful to patients and families, and use these identified barriers to iteratively adapt an existing nurse home visit program to address these barriers. This study will also test the efficacy of a nurse home visit intervention in improving post-discharge outcomes through a randomized controlled trial.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patient is under 18 years of age Patient is admitted to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center to hospital medicine, community pediatrics, adolescent medicine, neurology or neurosurgery.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patient to be discharged someplace other than home (e.g., residential facility, psychiatric facility)
* Patient's home residence is outside the home nursing service area
* Patient is eligible for "traditional" home nursing services
* Caregiver is non-English speaking

Primary outcomes:
measure: Number of Participants With Any Occurrence of Unplanned Re-hospitalization and/or Any Emergency/Urgent Care Visits Within 30 Days of Hospital Discharge
timeFrame: 30 days post-discharge
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Post Discharge Coping Difficulty Scale
timeFrame: 14 days post-discharge
measure: Days Until Normalcy
timeFrame: 14 days post-discharge
measure: Red Flags Remembered
timeFrame: 14 days post-discharge
measure: Number of Participants With Occurrence(s) of an Unplanned Readmission Within 30 Days Post-discharge
timeFrame: 30 days
measure: Number of Participants With Occurrence(s) of an Emergency Department Visit Within 30 Days Post-discharge
timeFrame: 30 days
measure: Number of Participants With Occurrence(s) of 14-day Unplanned Healthcare Utilization
timeFrame: 14 days post-discharge
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Cincinnati
country: United States
facility: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
state: Ohio
Study officials:
affiliation: Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
name: Samir S Shah, MD, MSCE
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Solan LG, Beck AF, Brunswick SA, Sauers HS, Wade-Murphy S, Simmons JM, Shah SS, Sherman SN; H2O Study Group. The Family Perspective on Hospital to Home Transitions: A Qualitative Study. Pediatrics. 2015 Dec;136(6):e1539-49. doi: 10.1542/peds.2015-2098.
citation: Sauers-Ford HS, Simmons JM, Shah SS; H2O Study Team. Strategies to engage stakeholders in research to improve acute care delivery. J Hosp Med. 2016 Feb;11(2):123-5. doi: 10.1002/jhm.2492. Epub 2015 Sep 28.
citation: Tubbs-Cooley HL, Pickler RH, Simmons JM, Auger KA, Beck AF, Sauers-Ford HS, Sucharew H, Solan LG, White CM, Sherman SN, Statile AM, Shah SS; H2O Study Group. Testing a post-discharge nurse-led transitional home visit in acute care pediatrics: the Hospital-To-Home Outcomes (H2O) study protocol. J Adv Nurs. 2016 Apr;72(4):915-25. doi: 10.1111/jan.12882. Epub 2016 Jan 28.
citation: Pickler R, Wade-Murphy S, Gold J, Tubbs-Cooley H, White CM, Statile A, Hoying C, Sauers-Ford H, Shah SS, Simmons J; H2O Study Group. A Nurse Transitional Home Visit Following Pediatric Hospitalizations. J Nurs Adm. 2016 Dec;46(12):642-647. doi: 10.1097/NNA.0000000000000420.
citation: Beck AF, Solan LG, Brunswick SA, Sauers-Ford H, Simmons JM, Shah S, Gold J, Sherman SN; H2O Study Group. Socioeconomic status influences the toll paediatric hospitalisations take on families: a qualitative study. BMJ Qual Saf. 2017 Apr;26(4):304-311. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2016-005421. Epub 2016 Jul 28.
citation: Sauers-Ford HS, Gold JM, Statile AM, Tubbs-Cooley HL, Simmons JM, Shah SS, Bell K, Pfefferman C, Moore MJ, Auger KA; H2O Study Group. Improving Recruitment and Retention Rates in a Randomized Controlled Trial. Pediatrics. 2017 May;139(5):e20162770. doi: 10.1542/peds.2016-2770.
citation: Solan LG, Beck AF, Shardo SA, Sauers-Ford HS, Simmons JM, Shah SS, Sherman SN; H2O Study Group. Caregiver Perspectives on Communication During Hospitalization at an Academic Pediatric Institution: A Qualitative Study. J Hosp Med. 2018 May;13(5):304-310. doi: 10.12788/jhm.2919.
citation: Shah AN, Beck AF, Sucharew HJ, Litman S, Pfefferman C, Haney J, Shah SS, Simmons JM, Auger KA; H2O Study Group. Parental Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resilience on Coping After Discharge. Pediatrics. 2018 Apr;141(4):e20172127. doi: 10.1542/peds.2017-2127.
citation: Auger KA, Simmons JM, Tubbs-Cooley HL, Sucharew HJ, Statile AM, Pickler RH, Sauers-Ford HS, Gold JM, Khoury JC, Beck AF, Wade-Murphy S, Kuhnell P, Shah SS; H2O Trial study group. Postdischarge Nurse Home Visits and Reuse: The Hospital to Home Outcomes (H2O) Trial. Pediatrics. 2018 Jul;142(1):e20173919. doi: 10.1542/peds.2017-3919.
citation: Chang LV, Shah AN, Hoefgen ER, Auger KA, Weng H, Simmons JM, Shah SS, Beck AF; H2O Study Group. Lost Earnings and Nonmedical Expenses of Pediatric Hospitalizations. Pediatrics. 2018 Sep;142(3):e20180195. doi: 10.1542/peds.2018-0195. Epub 2018 Aug 13.
citation: Sauers-Ford HS, Tubbs-Cooley H, Statile AM, Pickler RH, White CM, Wade-Murphy S, Gold JM, Shah SS, Simmons JM, Auger KA, Bachus J, Beck AF, Borell ML, Brunswick SA, Chang L, Heilman JA, Jabour JA, Khoury JC, Moore MJ, Sherman SN, Solan LG, Sucharew HJ, Sullivan KP. Optimizing a Nurse-led Transitional Home Visit Program in Preparation for a Randomized Control Trial. Pediatr Qual Saf. 2017 Jan 25;2(1):e012. doi: 10.1097/pq9.0000000000000012. eCollection 2017 Jan-Feb.
citation: Auger KA, Shah SS, Tubbs-Cooley HL, Sucharew HJ, Gold JM, Wade-Murphy S, Statile AM, Bell KD, Khoury JC, Mangeot C, Simmons JM; Hospital-to-Home Outcomes Trial Study Group. Effects of a 1-Time Nurse-Led Telephone Call After Pediatric Discharge: The H2O II Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Pediatr. 2018 Sep 1;172(9):e181482. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2018.1482. Epub 2018 Sep 4.