Transition From Hospital to Home Post Cardiac Condition

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Cardiac Condition

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01431846

Run by

US Department of Veterans Affairs

People needed

19

Starts

2011-08-01

Expected to finish

2012-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-04-28

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 90. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 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.

You may not qualify if…

• 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.

Where it is running

• VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System, Denver, CO — Denver, Colorado, United States

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