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This study determines if a community of practice of clinicians and quality improvement specialists can be used to implement a national quality initiative known as Hospital to Home (H2H). This quality initative is designed to reduced readmission rates for patients with heart failure or heart attack by improving the transition of care upon discharge.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Community of Practice Facilitation | Experimental | Medical Centers assigned to this arm will recieive the communtiy of practice facilitation. In this process we will contact existing members of the community of practice (called the Heart Failure Network) at the facility as well as attempt to identify new providers and other staff at the facility with an interest in improving heart failure care. The facilitation includes: describing the national H2H program, providing talking points and strategies for local providers to obtain support from their local facility to initiate local projects related to H2H, providing a forum for successful sites to describe how they initiated projects to sites yet to initiate projects. |
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| Usual Care | Experimental | Medical centers in this arm will hear of H2H through usual routs (calls with facilty Directors and Chiefs of staff). |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Community of Practice Facilitation | Other |
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| Usual Care |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| H2H enrollment | H2H enrollment by the facility as determined by the H2H program of the American College of Cardiology and Institute for Healthcare Improvement | 6 months |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| quality improvement programs initiated due to H2H | A new quality improvement initiated that addressess one of the 3 areas of H2H focus. These include, medication reconcilliation, early follow-up after discharge, and symptom recognition. | 6 months |
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Inclusion Criteria:
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| VA Palo Alto Health Care System | Palo Alto | California | 94304 | United States |
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| ID | Term |
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| D006333 | Heart Failure |
| ID | Term |
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| D006331 | Heart Diseases |
| D002318 | Cardiovascular Diseases |
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