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NCT06416670
Skilled Nursing Facility Care at Home
Conditions: Skilled Nursing Facility, Rehabilitation
Sex: All
Ages: 18 Years – N/A
Healthy volunteers: No
Phase: NA
Enrollment: 300
Sponsor: Brigham and Women's Hospital
Location: Massachusetts General Hospital Boston Massachusetts
Summary
We will perform a parallel-group multicenter patient-level randomized controlled evaluation of skilled nursing facility care at home. Patients typically referred to a skilled nursing facility following hospitalization will be eligible for enrollment. Instead of admission to a skilled nursing facility, participants will receive care from a technology-enabled team in their own homes or will be allocated to receive care in a traditional skilled nursing facility setting.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
* \>=18 years old
* Requires SNF PAC care following hospitalization, as determined by the inpatient team (requires documented rehabilitative therapy recommendation)
* Community-dwelling before hospitalization
* Likely to return to community-dwelling status following short-term rehabilitation as determined by RAH liaison
* Lives within 10 miles of any study site hospital (or per specified catchment)
* Surgical trauma and elective patients (weight bearing as tolerated and transfer with no more than one-person assist)
* Neurology patients - Stroke (needs acute rehabilitation, but insurance will not cover, so bound for SNF. Does not meet acute rehabilitation criteria and does not need long-term placement)
Exclusion Criteria:
* Environmental
* Undomiciled
* No working heat (October-April), no working air conditioning if forecast \> 80°F, or no running water
* In police custody
* Resides in a facility that does not allow advanced on-site care
* Domestic violence screen positive
* Weapons that cannot be appropriately secured
* Difficulty accessing the bathroom (unless there is space for a bedside commode where the patient sleeps or if the patient is entirely dependent on toileting)
* Home has insufficient accessible space to sleep, eat, and perform rehabilitative therapy
* Home lacks sufficient kitchen facilities to either cook or heat meals
* Patient, or patient's family caregiver, unable to communicate via telephone
* Patient, or patient's family caregiver, lacks consistent access to a telephone
* Clinical
* Requires more than one assist (unless the family can provide additional 24/7 assistance)
* Requires care of new ostomy or teaching ostomy care
* Requires frequent suctioning, tracheostomy, and ventilator needs
* Requires total parenteral nutrition
* Requires nasogastric tube feeds
* Requires durable medical equipment not already in place at home and excluded below
* Requires daily subcutaneous injection unless patient or family caregiver is teachable and able to administer daily
* Acute delirium noted by RAH liaison requiring more than one caregiver
* Active psychiatric diagnosis without an adequate treatment plan
* On methadone requiring daily pickup of medication
* Requires administration of intravenous controlled substances
* Requires administration of specialty medications not already in place at home
* Requires transfusion of blood products
* Requires three times weekly or more transfers back and forth to obtain specialty medical care
* Requires hemodialysis
* Orthopedic trauma and elective patients
* Traumatic brain injury
* Wound or appliance care that requires daily nursing care
* For spine trauma: neurologic deficits requiring more than one assist
* Neurology patients
* PRESS score (for ischemic stroke; use PRESS app): no return to pre-stroke diet \> 50%
* FUNC score (for primary intracerebral hemorrhage only): \
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT06416670). StuddyBuddy aggregates publicly available trial information.