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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 19 February 2015
Main ID:  NCT02351648
Date of registration: 21/01/2015
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Singapore General Hospital
Public title: A Randomised Control Trial of a Transitional Care Model in Singapore General Hospital
Scientific title: A Randomised Control Trial of a Transitional Care Model in Singapore General Hospital
Date of first enrolment: October 2012
Target sample size: 840
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02351648
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Health Services Research  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Singapore
Contacts
Name:     Kheng Hock Lee, MBBS
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Telephone:
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Affiliation:  Singapore General Hospital
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria

-More than 1 admission in the last 90 days

Exclusion Criteria

- Subject is a non-resident

- Subject has no local home address

- Subject is from a long-term care facility during index admission

- Subject is unable to participate in telephone surveillance

- Subject is discharged before takeover

- Subject has impaired decision making capacity without surrogate decision maker

- Subject is pending or currently in critical care unit

- Subject or caregiver is mentally unstable

- Subject is haemodynamically unstable

- Subject requires acute inpatient respiratory support

- Subject requires acute inpatient dialysis support

- Subject pending surgical intervention

- Subject pending transfer to other specialist discipline

- Primary team consultant declined to participate in this research



Age minimum: 21 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Chronic Diseases
Intervention(s)
Other: Control
Other: a transitional care model
Primary Outcome(s)
Readmission rate [Time Frame: 30 days after index discharge]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Time to first readmission [Time Frame: Up to 90 days after index discharge]
Quality of transitional care using a validated care transition measure (CTM-15) tool [Time Frame: 90 days after index discharge]
Emergency department attendance rate [Time Frame: Up to 180 days after index discharge]
Readmission rate [Time Frame: up to 180 days after index discharge]
Specialist Outpatient Clinic visits [Time Frame: Up to 180 days after index discharge]
Secondary ID(s)
2012/848/E
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Agency of Integrated Care
Duke- NUS
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
Date Posted:
Date Completed:
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