Testing the Re-Engineered Hospital Discharge

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: All

In brief

The purpose of this study is to determine if the "Re-Engineered Discharge" will decrease rehospitalization rates and adverse events of patients leaving Boston Medical Center.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00252057

Run by

Boston University

People needed

749

Starts

2005-12-01

Expected to finish

2007-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-03-28

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• The Project Director will meet with the subject to determine if the patient meets inclusion or exclusion criteria.
• Inclusion criteria include are patients who:
• are over 18 years old;
• are to be discharged to a community, non-institutionalized setting;
• report that they desire to be hospitalized in the future if there is a clinical need; and
• are admitted to Firm B of the BMC Inpatient Service.

You may not qualify if…

• admitted to non-general Medical services at BMC (e.g., orthopedic surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, otolaryngology, general surgery, or psychiatry);
• requiring hospice, nursing home or other institutional settings upon discharge,
• who die during the admission,
• subjects who speak languages other than English;
• those who indicate that they have no access to a telephone or unable to give a contact telephone number; and
• those not competent to sign informed consent.

Where it is running

• Boston Medical center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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