Comparison of effects between home visits with telephone calls and telephone calls only for transitional discharge support: a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

home visits and telephone calls are two often used approaches in transitional care but their differential effects are unknown.

Objective

to examine the overall effects of a transitional care programme for discharged medical patients and the differential effects of telephone calls only.

Design

randomised controlled trial.

Setting

a regional hospital in Hong Kong.

Participants

patients discharged from medical units fitting the inclusion criteria (n = 610) were randomly assigned to: control ('control', n = 210), home visits with calls ('home', n = 196) and calls only ('call', n = 204).

Intervention

the home groups received alternative home visits and calls and the call groups calls only for 4 weeks. The control group received two placebo c

SUBMITTER: Wong FK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3861338 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature