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Hospital-to-Home Transitional Care Interventions (H2H-TCI) Children/Youth With Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN)
Sponsor: Duke University
Summary
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.
Official title: Hospital-to-Home Care Coordination for Children and Youth With Special Health Care Needs
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
Any - 18 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
480
Start Date
2025-08-28
Completion Date
2029-02
Last Updated
2025-09-11
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
Focused Dose Hospital-to-Home Transitional Care Interventions
Focused dose H2H-TCIs will consist of a one-time post-discharge phone call completed within 72 hours post-hospital discharge by a clinical interventionist (e.g., nurse care coordinator or care manager). Calls will follow a structured template that provides empirically supported core H2H-TCI functions (follow-up care access, contingency planning, medication review, family education). The interventionist will also conduct a pre-hospital discharge clinical needs assessment with the parent.
Extended Dose Hospital-to-Home Transitional Care Interventions
Extended dose H2H-TCIs will include a pre-discharge clinical needs assessment and initial phone call within 72 hours post-discharge, similar to the focused arm. After the initial contact, the dose of the extended H2H-TCI will increase as subjects receive high-intensity support during weekly post-discharge phone contacts through 30 days post-discharge. All contacts in the extended dose arm will be completed by a transition coach interventionist (e.g., nurse care coordinator or care manager) who will be formally trained on pillars of the Care Transitions Intervention© (CTI), a multi-faceted H2H-TCI that is the basis for the extended dose arm.
Locations (2)
UNC Hospitals
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
DUHS
Durham, North Carolina, United States