N/A
N=19
Transition From Hospital to Home Post Cardiac Condition
Cardiac Condition
Bottom Line
View on ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01431846 ↗Enrolled (actual)
19
Serious AEs
0.0%
Results posted
Feb 2015
Primary outcome: Primary: See Primary Outcome Description Below — 8; 3; 8; 3 participants
Study Design & Population
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- N/A
- Interventions
- Intervention (Behavioral)
- Age
- Adult, Older Adult · 18+ yrs
- Sex
- All
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
- Primary completion
- Dec 2012
Outcome Measures
| Outcome | Result | p-value |
|---|---|---|
| PRIMARY See Primary Outcome Description Below |
8; 3; 8; 3; NA; 6 | — |
Summary
The study had three parts:
Part 1: Patients (or their home caretakers) who live outside of Denver and receive their primary care at a location other than the Denver VAMC were interviewed after their discharge. The interview covered the patient's perspective about the transition of their medical care from the Denver VA to their primary care facility.
Part 2: Primary care providers from the VA facilities that refer patients to the Denver VA were interviewed regarding their opinions of transition process from the Denver VA back to the primary care VA facilities.
Part 3: The data from the above interviews were used to develop an intervention to improve the transition process from the Denver VA back to the primary care VA facilities.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
Aims 1 and 3:
- Patients transferred from primary care VA facilities (i.e., Cheyenne, Grand Junction, Sheridan, Ft. Harrison) for cardiac care (e.g., heart failure, acute myocardial infarction) or procedures (coronary angiography, pacemaker implantation) to the Denver VAMC and discharged home to follow-up with their primary care provider, were eligible.
Aim 2:
- Providers from VA primary care facilities, (i.e., Cheyenne, Grand Junction, Sheridan, and Ft. Harrison) who took care of patients discharged from the Denver VAMC for cardiology care, were eligible for the qualitative interviews.
Exclusion Criteria
Aims 1 and 3:
- Exclusion criteria included:
- Planned discharge to nursing home or skilled nursing facility;
- Irreversible, non-cardiac medical condition (e.g. metastatic cancer) likely to affect 6-month survival or ability to execute study protocol;
- Lack of telephone/ cell phone; and
- VA is not their primary source of care or their PCP is not in the VA system.
Aim 2: There were exclusion criteria.
Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT01431846). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication.