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AMERICAN HEART JOURNAL
卷 199, 期 -, 页码 75-82出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2017.12.013
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资金
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research [135917]
- Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (MOHLTC) Health System Research Fund [6686]
- MOHLTC
- Hamilton Health Sciences Career Award
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research Foundation Grant (FDN) [143237]
- Ontario Mid-Career Scientist Award from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, Ontario's office
Introduction: Heart Failure (HF) is a common cause of hospitalization in older adults. The transition fromhospital to home is high-risk, and gaps in transitional care can increase the risk of re-hospitalization and death. Combining health care services supported by meta-analyses, we designed the PACT-HF transitional care model. Methods: Adopting an integrated Knowledge Translation (iKT) approach inwhich decision-makers and clinicians are partners in research, we implement and test the effectiveness of PACT-HF among patients hospitalized for HF. We use a pragmatic stepped wedge cluster randomized trial design to introduce the complex health service intervention to 10 large hospitals in a randomized sequence until all hospitals initiate the intervention. The goal is for all patients hospitalized with HF to receive self-care education, multidisciplinary care, and early follow-up with their health care providers; and in addition, for high-risk patients to receive post-discharge nurse-led home visits and outpatient care in Heart Function clinics. This requires integration of care across hospitals, home care agencies, and outpatient clinics in our publicly funded health care system. While hospitals are the unit of recruitment and analysis, patients (estimated sample size of 3200) are the unit of analysis. Primary outcomes are hierarchically ordered as time to composite all-cause readmissions / emergency department (ED) visits / death at 3 months and time to composite all-cause readmissions / ED visits at 30 days. In a nested study of 8 hospitals, we measure the patient-centered outcomes of Discharge Preparedness, Care Transitions Quality, and Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY); and the 6-month health care resource use and costs. We obtain all clinical and cost outcomes via linkages to provincial administrative databases. Conclusions: This protocol describes the implementation and testing of a transitional caremodel comprising health care services informed by high-level evidence. The study adopts an iKT and pragmatic approach, uses a robust study design, links clinical trial data with outcomes held in administrative databases, and includes patientreported outcomes. Findings will have implications on clinical practice, health care policy, and Knowledge Translation (KT) research methodology. (c) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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