Post-hospitalization Nursing Effectiveness (PHONE) Study
Completed · Phase 3
Conditions studied: Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia, Prematurity
In brief
Based on success with telephone follow up for other groups of medically fragile infants, we designed an innovative model of post-hospital comprehensive and coordinated follow-up for infants with chronic lung disease. In this model, which we refer to as community-based follow-up, medical management was coordinated by a nurse specialist, through frequent telephone contacts with the infants' primary caregiver. This model of follow up care was compared, in a randomized trial, with the more traditional model - multidisciplinary medical center-based care. We hypothesized that community-based care would lead to health and developmental outcomes similar to those observed with center-based care.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00314431
- Run by
- Wake Forest University
- People needed
- 150
- Starts
- 1996-05-01
- Expected to finish
- 2000-08-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2017-11-06
Who can join
Age: 0 and older, up to 1. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Infants were eligible if they were born before 33 weeks gestational age, required supplemental oxygen at 36 weeks gestational age, and were discharged home after neonatal intensive care.
You may not qualify if…
- Neonates who had major congenital anomalies and/ or had tracheostomy tubes were excluded. Also excluded were families in which the mother did not speak English, because the intervention depended on verbal communication with the nurse specialist, and families who lived more than 150 miles from our clinic because such families typically are referred to regional neonatal center closer to their home.
Where it is running
- Wake Forest University School of Medicine — Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
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