About this trial
Aim 1: Compare the effectiveness of focused dose vs extended dose hospital-to-home Transitional Care Interventions (H2H-TCI) on health service use and parent-reported confidence for hospitalized CYSHCN. Aim 2: Compare the effectiveness of focused and extended dose H2H-TCI among vulnerable CYSHCN subgroups. Hypothesis: Both H2H-TCI arms will improve primary outcomes more for CYSHCN with higher versus lower clinical complexity; while extended H2H-TCI will better mitigate racial/ethnic outcome disparities than focused H2H-TCI. Aim 3: Evaluate implementation context, processes, and mechanisms via a multi-phase mixed methods study design.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Child is a CYSHCN, defined as having seen two or more distinct specialty areas for outpatient visits during the 12 months prior to index hospitalization admission date
Age of hospitalized child is under 18 years old
Child hospitalized on a general pediatrics inpatient service line at participating site
Adult parent/caregiver for the child is 18 years or older
Disqualifiers
Child will be discharged to any location besides home (e.g., long-term care or residential facility, skilled nursing facility, inpatient acute rehabilitation, psychiatric facility)
Child is a ward of the state or has an ongoing social services investigation
Child is already receiving transitional care, intensive longitudinal care coordination (e.g., organ/disease-specific clinical program, clinical division within the same institution as the hospital [e.g., Children's Complex Care Program at UNC; Complex Care Service at Duke]), and/or longitudinal population health care coordination as part of a bundled alternative payment care model.
Age less than 18 years old
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Focused Dose Hospital-to-Home Transitional Care Interventions
- Extended Dose Hospital-to-Home Transitional Care Interventions
Treatment groups
Sponsors and collaborators
Duke University
Lead sponsor
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
Collaborator