Study of Physician Awareness of and Communication About Patient Readmissions to the Hospital

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Hospital Readmission

In brief

Patients admitted to inpatient medicine services often require early hospital readmission, and often they are readmitted to different physician or team, potentially without the knowledge of the prior physician or team. Thus, physicians may lose the opportunity to share valuable information about readmitted patients, which may be detrimental to continuity of care and patient safety. The purpose of this study is to determine baseline awareness and communication rates among physicians regarding readmissions, and then measure the effect of automatic notification on these rates.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00550264

Run by

Brigham and Women's Hospital

People needed

500

Starts

2007-02-01

Expected to finish

2008-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2011-06-28

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• All patients admitted to the general medicine service at two academic medical centers, and unexpectedly readmitted within 14 days.

You may not qualify if…

• Patients readmitted to the same physician(s), or those whose readmission was planned

Where it is running

• Brigham & Women's Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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