Remote vs In-home Physician Visits for Hospital-Level Care at Home: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Home hospital care is the substitutive provision of home-based acute care services usually associated with a traditional inpatient hospital. Many home hospital models require a physician to see patients at home daily, which may hinder scalability. Whether remote physician visits can safely substitute for most in-home visits is unknown.

Objective

To compare remote and in-home physician care.

Design, setting, and participants

This randomized clinical trial assessed 172 adult patients at an academic medical center and community hospital who required hospital-level care for select acute conditions, including infection, heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and asthma, between August 3, 2019, and March 26, 2020; follow-up ended April 26, 2020.

SUBMITTER: Levine DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9428739 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature