Effectiveness of Transition Care Intervention Targeted to High-Risk Patients to Reduce Readmissions: Study Protocol for the TARGET-READ Multicenter Randomized-Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT: Hospital readmissions within 30 days represent a burden for the patients and the entire health care system. Improving the care around hospital discharge period could decrease the risk of avoidable readmissions. We describe the methods of a trial that aims to evaluate the effect of a structured multimodal transitional care intervention targeted to higher-risk medical patients on 30-day unplanned readmissions and death. The TARGET-READ study is an investigator-initiated, pragmatic single-blinded randomized multicenter controlled trial with two parallel groups. We include all adult patients at risk of hospital readmission based on a simplified HOSPITAL score of ≥4 who are discharged home or nursing home after a hospital stay of one day or more in the department of medicine of the four partici

SUBMITTER: Gouveia A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10048511 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature