About this trial
To enhance implementation of Hospital-at-home (HaH) in Scandinavia, the Nordic Digital Health \& Education (NorDigHE) project has developed a comprehensive virtual education on HaH for clinical staff. The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate whether an online education for clinical staff can enhance the implementation of HaH services in hospitals across Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.
The primary outcome of the RCT is HaH implementation measured at organization level, understood as a change in clinical practice by increased HaH activity. Secondary outcomes are HaH knowledge and motivation among clinical staff as well as patient days in hospital, days hospitalized at home, 30-day readmission, and mortality.
Researchers will compare hospitals receiving the NorDigHE education (intervention group) to hospitals continuing treatment as usual (control group) to see if the education leads to greater adoption of HaH and changes in service delivery.
Participants will:
* Complete baseline, 3-month, and 6-month surveys assessing HaH activity, staff knowledge, and motivation. * Participate in a 12-month follow-up assessment (intervention group only). * Be invited (patients, staff, and management) to take part in semi-structured interviews to share experiences and preferences related to HaH. * (For staff in the intervention group) Complete the NorDigHE virtual education program embedded in the WHO Fast-IM.
After the study, the control group will be offered access to the NorDigHE education as a participant retention measure.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
a governance structure to organize and oversee HaH-services.
an IT-platform capable of managing data from and to HaH patients.
a safe communication pathway between HaH-patient and the hospital.
clear agreements on types of data to be exchanged between HaH-patient and hospital.
Disqualifiers
Hospitals that do not have or are not ready to secure relevant pre-requisites listed above (a to f).
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- HaH education
Treatment groups
Sponsors and collaborators
Nordsjaellands Hospital
Lead sponsor
Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Collaborator
Lund University
Collaborator
University College Copenhagen
Collaborator
Ostfold University College
Collaborator
Region Capital Denmark
Collaborator