Post-Acute Physician Home Visit Program

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: A Patient Discharged From an Acute-care Hospital Who Had an Acute Illness

In brief

New or worsening symptoms following discharge from the hospital likely leads to unplanned readmission. These rates are higher than desired and costly to patients, payers, and providers. Many interventions have unsuccessfully attempted to reduce readmissions, but few have provided in-home personnel to patients transitioning from acute care back to ambulatory care. Still fewer have involved a physician in the home. We therefore will test the effect of a physician home visit to a patient's home who was discharged in the last 4 days.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03178513

Run by

Brigham and Women's Hospital

People needed

51

Starts

2017-06-06

Expected to finish

2018-01-20

Last updated by the study team

2019-08-13

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Resides within either a 5-mile or 20-minute driving radius of Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) or Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital (BWFH) emergency room
• Has capacity to consent to study
• >=18 years old

You may not qualify if…

• Undomiciled
• In police custody
• Domestic violence screen positive

Where it is running

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

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