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| ID | Type | Description | Link |
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| K23MD019068-01 | U.S. NIH Grant/Contract | View source |
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| National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) | NIH |
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Hospital discharge is a dangerous time for patients: one in five will suffer an adverse event, such as a medication error, and nearly 25% will be readmitted within 30 days. This time is even more dangerous for patients with who face communication barriers, including those with non-English language preference (NELP), low health literacy, and the elderly.
The investigators will pilot a post-discharge educational intervention to reinforce written discharge instructions (known as the After Visit Summary or AVS) using a randomized controlled trial design (2:1 intervention: control). The control group will receive current standard of care discharge education which includes a nurse reviewing their AVS and an automated call in English that allows patients to numerically select types of problems/questions that are then escalated to a nurse who should return their call within a few days. The intervention group will receive the standard of care discharge education with the AVS and an additional post-discharge educational call delivered by a registered nurse or other qualified health professional with the option to have written instructions professionally translated and sent via MyChart message--if available in their preferred language.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Educational intervention | Other | Participants randomized into this arm will receive current hospital discharge education and an additional post-discharge educational call. |
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| Standard of care | No Intervention | Participants randomized into this arm will receive current hospital discharge education. |
| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Additional post discharge phone call | Other | 24-72 hours after hospital discharge, a nurse will call participants to review the written After Visit Summary (AVS) given at discharge, including primary diagnosis, self-care instructions, emergency plan, medication changes, how and why to take medication, and scheduled follow up. These phone calls will take on average 10-15 minutes. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Retention success by linguistic group | Number of enrolled participants who completed all study assessments stratified by linguistic group. | 12 months |
| Fidelity to the intervention | The number of scheduled educations calls that were completed for participants in the intervention arm based on nursing documentation in Epic. | 12 months |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Acceptability of the intervention | The Acceptability of Intervention Measure (AIM) will be completed by participants in the intervention arm to assess acceptability. It has four questions with 5 Likert responses where 1 = Completely disagree, 2 = Disagree, 3 = Neither agree nor disagree, 4 = Agree, 5 = Completely agree, The range of scores from 4 to 20 with higher scores indicating greater acceptability. |
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Kirsten Austad, MD MPH | Contact | 617 414-2050 | kirsten.austad@bmc.org | |
| Khushbu Patel, MA | Contact | 617 414-6227 | kfpatel@bu.edu |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Kirsten Austad, MD MPH | Boston Medical Center, Family Medicine | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Boston Medical Center | Recruiting | Boston | Massachusetts | 02118 | United States |
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Two arm randomized controlled trial (2:1 intervention:control), Randomization stratified by language.
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| 12 months |
| Feasibility of the intervention | Feasibility will be assessed by the number of participants in the intervention arm whose educational call was language concordant based on nursing documentation in Epic. | 12 months |
| Patient Understanding of Discharge Instruction (UDI) Scale | Assessed by a composite score of six key domains of discharge instructions (primary diagnosis, self-care instructions, return precautions, medication changes, medication indications, follow-up) as determined by physician adjudicators (1=poor, 4 = near perfect). Higher scores demonstrate better understanding. | 12 months |