Educational and Supportive Interventions to Prevent Cardiopulmonary Rehospitalization

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Cardiovascular Diseases, Heart Diseases

In brief

This study will use a comprehensive hospital discharge toolkit to implement up-to-date guidelines for cardiopulmonary diseases. The study will also include a computer-based patient-education program and a telephone-based post-discharge program, both designed for individuals with limited health literacy. The purpose of this study is to reduce early hospital readmission.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00217867

Run by

Boston Medical Center

People needed

832

Starts

2008-10-01

Expected to finish

2012-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-07-28

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Admitted to the general medical service at Boston Medical Center (BMC)
• Desires to be hospitalized in the future if there is a clinical need
• Able to communicate in English with health providers

You may not qualify if…

• Transferred from an outside hospital or a specialty services at BMC (e.g., orthopedic surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, otolaryngology, general surgery, or psychiatry)
• Requires hospice, nursing home, or other institutional settings
• Vision that is inadequate to discern the computer-based education and self-management support system
• Hearing that is inadequate to use a telephone
• Unable to independently consent
• Scheduled admission (e.g. for surgery)
• Has sickle cell disease

Where it is running

• Boston Medical Center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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