Clinical trial NCT04236583: Improving the Hospital-to-Home Transition Through Post-Discharge Virtual Visits in Primary Care
Official title: Improving the Hospital-to-Home Transition Through Post-Discharge Virtual Visits in Primary Care
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: SUSPENDED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Telehealth
Keywords: Video Visits
Virtual Visits
Telehealth
Lead sponsor: Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2020-01-22
Enrollment: 25
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to test a new process for having a virtual visit with a primary care doctor after discharge from the hospital, instead of an in-person visit.

Detailed description: The goal of this project is to fully develop the protocol for identifying patients who would benefit from a virtual visit and develop the protocol for implementing the virtual visit. The value of this project is that the results will provide ample preliminary data for a future randomized controlled trial to determine the effectiveness of the intervention. This project will have an intervention group only. The hypothesis is that the intervention can be implemented in a way that is feasible and acceptable to providers and patients.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Medical inpatients, age \>=18, with an existing WCIMA attending as his or her PCP
* Patients with disposition to home
* Medically appropriate for a video visit (as determined by inpatient attending)
* Patients or caregivers must be able to enroll in MyChart before discharge, must be capable of using the Weill Cornell Connect app to do a video visit at home using broadband access or the equivalent (must own a device compatible with the app, e.g.

smartphone or tablet)

* English speaking
* Cognitively able to participate or Caregiver must be able to participate

Primary outcomes:
measure: Proportion of patients meeting inclusion criteria over the study period out of all patients being discharged over the same time period
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Proportion of patients who consent to participate out of all those found to be eligible
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Proportion of patients who successfully schedule video visits out of all of those who consent
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
measure: Proportion of patients who successfully complete video visit out of all of those who scheduled
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Patient satisfaction with the video visit
timeFrame: Within one month post-intervention
measure: Physician satisfaction with the video visit
timeFrame: Within one month post-intervention
measure: Number of in-person visits instead of or in addition to video visit
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: New York
country: United States
facility: Weill Cornell Medicine
state: New York
Study officials:
affiliation: Weill Medical College of Cornell University
name: Sanjai Sinha, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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