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| Name | Class |
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| Wake Forest University Health Sciences | OTHER |
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A nutrition-focused QIP will be implemented as standard of care at select branches of the home health division of the health care system. The QIP will be comprised of three groups of patients, Group 1 will consist of hospitalized, at-risk/malnourished patients being discharged to home health, Group 2 will consist of outpatients at-risk/malnourished patients enrolled in home health and Group 3 will consist of SNF, at-risk/malnourished patients being discharged to home health. Groups will be followed for 90 days post enrollment. The QIP groups will be compared to historical controls, concurrent controls, and matched concurrent controls across other sites within the health system.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Quality Improvement Program | This group will consist of hospitalized and SNF, at-risk/malnourished patients being discharged to home health and outpatients at-risk/malnourished patients enrolled in home health. |
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| Control | This group will consist of historical controls, concurrent controls, and matched concurrent controls across other sites within the health system. |
| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Quality Improvement Program | Other | Nutrition screening, Nutrition consult, Oral Nutritional Supplement will be implemented in the Home Health branches as standard of care. |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Hospital readmissions or admissions | Enrollment to Home Health to 90 Days |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Healthcare resource utilization and costs | Enrollment to Home Health to 90 Days |
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Malnourished patients receiving care in the targeted branch of the home health division of the health care system.
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Suela Sulo, PhD, MSc | Abbott Nutrition | Study Chair |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Advocate at Home | Des Plaines | Illinois | 60018 | United States | ||
| Advocate at Home- South Office |
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| ID | Term |
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| D044342 | Malnutrition |
| ID | Term |
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| D009748 | Nutrition Disorders |
| D009750 | Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases |
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| Oak Lawn |
| Illinois |
| 60453 |
| United States |