HEARt Sounds: Audio Recordings to Improve Discharge Communication for Cardiology Inpatients

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Conditions studied: Cardiovascular Disease

In brief

Ineffective hospital discharge communication can significantly impact patient understanding, safety, and treatment adherence. This is especially true for cardiology patients, who leave the hospital with complex discharge plans, a multitude of high-risk medications, post-procedural care instructions and recommendations for drastic lifestyle changes, all delivered in a time-pressured discharge discussion. The goal of this pilot trial is to determine if it is possible to use audio recordings to supplement usual discharge communication to improve cardiology patients' ability to understand and self-manage care after leaving the hospital.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03735342

Run by

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

People needed

57

Starts

2018-11-12

Expected to finish

2019-12-30

Last updated by the study team

2021-06-30

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• 18 years of age or older
• Cardiology inpatients
• Comfortable reading and writing in English
• Willing to have discharge conversation recorded

You may not qualify if…

• Patients who are unable or unwilling to provide written informed consent
• Diagnosis of dementia, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
• Have a substance-abuse disorder
• Severe uncorrected vision or hearing problems
• Currently living in skilled nursing facility or hospice
• Planned discharge to a structured facility (e.g., skilled nursing facility, intermediate care facility, hospice)

Where it is running

• Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center — Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States

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