Cirrhosis Readmission Telehealth Project

Stopped early · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Cirrhosis

In brief

This is a 2 year research study to study if post discharge phone calls can help lengthen time to hospital readmissions for patients with encephalopathy.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02313896

Run by

Yale University

People needed

10

Starts

2014-07-01

Expected to finish

2016-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-10-14

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Age of at least 18
• Patients with known cirrhosis
• Current hospitalization for overt hepatic encephalopathy as categorized by West Haven encephalopathy score of 2 or more
• Current hospitalization found no precipitants triggering encephalopathy as determined by the primary team
• Encephalopathy resolved at time of enrollment
• Has a telephone
• Able to obtain medications

You may not qualify if…

• Altered mental status unrelated to cirrhosis
• Acute liver failure
• Expectation of liver transplant within 1 month after enrollment
• Chronic kidney disease with Cr > 2 mg/dL
• Respiratory insufficiency:moderate to sever COPD on pulmonary function test
• Electrolyte imbalances not corrected at enrollment
• Sodium less than 125 mmol/L
• Calcium greater than 10mg/dL
• Potassium < 2.5mmol/L
• Unable to give legal consent
• Deafness
• Infection, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, gastrointestinal bleeding

Where it is running

• Yale New Haven Hospital — New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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