Checklist Tool in Engaging Patients in the Discharge Planning Process

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Hospitalization, Malignant Neoplasm, Transitional Care Planning

In brief

This clinical trial studies how well a checklist tool works in engaging patients in the discharge planning process. Engaging patients in the discharge process may increase participation in the discharge process and improve discharge outcomes, understanding of care after hospitalization, and decrease complications.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02942524

Run by

Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center

People needed

450

Starts

2016-04-01

Expected to finish

2017-08-04

Last updated by the study team

2020-07-29

Who can join

Age: 19 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients fluent in English, conscious, coherent, and alert or have an adult caregiver present that is fluent in English will be identified for the TEPID research project

You may not qualify if…

• Patients discharged to another inpatient facility (hospice, skilled nursing facility, long term acute care hospital [LTACH], or acute rehab) or patients discharged home with hospice will be excluded
• Any patients that are transferred to another unit prior to discharge will be excluded

Where it is running

• Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Columbus, Ohio, United States

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