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Evaluating an intervention to improve the safety and experience of transitions from hospital to home for older people (Your Care Needs You): a protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial and process evaluation

BACKGROUND: Older patients often experience safety issues when transitioning from hospital to home. The ‘Your Care Needs You’ (YCNY) intervention aims to support older people to ‘know more’ and ‘do more’ whilst in hospital so that they are better prepared for managing at home. METHODS: A multi-centr...

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Autores principales: Lawton, Rebecca, Murray, Jenni, Baxter, Ruth, Richardson, Gerry, Cockayne, Sarah, Baird, Kalpita, Mandefield, Laura, Brealey, Stephen, O’Hara, Jane, Foy, Robbie, Sheard, Laura, Cracknell, Alison, Breckin, Edmund, Hewitt, Catherine
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10576890/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37838678
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-023-07716-z
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author Lawton, Rebecca
Murray, Jenni
Baxter, Ruth
Richardson, Gerry
Cockayne, Sarah
Baird, Kalpita
Mandefield, Laura
Brealey, Stephen
O’Hara, Jane
Foy, Robbie
Sheard, Laura
Cracknell, Alison
Breckin, Edmund
Hewitt, Catherine
author_facet Lawton, Rebecca
Murray, Jenni
Baxter, Ruth
Richardson, Gerry
Cockayne, Sarah
Baird, Kalpita
Mandefield, Laura
Brealey, Stephen
O’Hara, Jane
Foy, Robbie
Sheard, Laura
Cracknell, Alison
Breckin, Edmund
Hewitt, Catherine
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description BACKGROUND: Older patients often experience safety issues when transitioning from hospital to home. The ‘Your Care Needs You’ (YCNY) intervention aims to support older people to ‘know more’ and ‘do more’ whilst in hospital so that they are better prepared for managing at home. METHODS: A multi-centre cluster randomised controlled trial (cRCT) will evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the YCNY intervention. Forty acute hospital wards (clusters) in England from varying medical specialities will be randomised to deliver YCNY or care-as-usual on a 1:1 basis. The primary outcome will be unplanned hospital readmission rates within 30 days of discharge. This will be extracted from routinely collected data of at least 5440 patients (aged 75 years and older) discharged to their own homes during the 4- to 5-month YCNY intervention period. A nested cohort of up to 1000 patients will be recruited to the study to collect secondary outcomes via follow-up questionnaires at 5-, 30- and 90-day post-discharge. These will include measures of patient experience of transitions, patient-reported safety events, quality of life and healthcare resource use. Unplanned hospital readmission rates at 60 and 90 days of discharge will be collected from routine data. A process evaluation (primarily interviews and observations with patients, carers and staff) will be conducted to understand the implementation of the intervention and the contextual factors that shape this, as well as the intervention’s underlying mechanisms of action. Fidelity of intervention delivery will also be assessed across all intervention wards. DISCUSSION: This study will establish the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the YCNY intervention which aims to improve patient safety and experience for older people during transitions of care. The process evaluation will generate insights about how the YCNY intervention was implemented, what elements of the intervention work and for whom, and how to optimise its implementation so that it can be delivered with high fidelity in routine service contexts. TRIAL REGISTRATION: UK Clinical Research Network Portfolio: 44559; ISTCRN: ISRCTN17062524. Registered on 11/02/2020. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13063-023-07716-z.
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spelling pubmed-105768902023-10-16 Evaluating an intervention to improve the safety and experience of transitions from hospital to home for older people (Your Care Needs You): a protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial and process evaluation Lawton, Rebecca Murray, Jenni Baxter, Ruth Richardson, Gerry Cockayne, Sarah Baird, Kalpita Mandefield, Laura Brealey, Stephen O’Hara, Jane Foy, Robbie Sheard, Laura Cracknell, Alison Breckin, Edmund Hewitt, Catherine Trials Study Protocol BACKGROUND: Older patients often experience safety issues when transitioning from hospital to home. The ‘Your Care Needs You’ (YCNY) intervention aims to support older people to ‘know more’ and ‘do more’ whilst in hospital so that they are better prepared for managing at home. METHODS: A multi-centre cluster randomised controlled trial (cRCT) will evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the YCNY intervention. Forty acute hospital wards (clusters) in England from varying medical specialities will be randomised to deliver YCNY or care-as-usual on a 1:1 basis. The primary outcome will be unplanned hospital readmission rates within 30 days of discharge. This will be extracted from routinely collected data of at least 5440 patients (aged 75 years and older) discharged to their own homes during the 4- to 5-month YCNY intervention period. A nested cohort of up to 1000 patients will be recruited to the study to collect secondary outcomes via follow-up questionnaires at 5-, 30- and 90-day post-discharge. These will include measures of patient experience of transitions, patient-reported safety events, quality of life and healthcare resource use. Unplanned hospital readmission rates at 60 and 90 days of discharge will be collected from routine data. A process evaluation (primarily interviews and observations with patients, carers and staff) will be conducted to understand the implementation of the intervention and the contextual factors that shape this, as well as the intervention’s underlying mechanisms of action. Fidelity of intervention delivery will also be assessed across all intervention wards. DISCUSSION: This study will establish the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the YCNY intervention which aims to improve patient safety and experience for older people during transitions of care. The process evaluation will generate insights about how the YCNY intervention was implemented, what elements of the intervention work and for whom, and how to optimise its implementation so that it can be delivered with high fidelity in routine service contexts. TRIAL REGISTRATION: UK Clinical Research Network Portfolio: 44559; ISTCRN: ISRCTN17062524. Registered on 11/02/2020. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13063-023-07716-z. BioMed Central 2023-10-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10576890/ /pubmed/37838678 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-023-07716-z Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Lawton, Rebecca
Murray, Jenni
Baxter, Ruth
Richardson, Gerry
Cockayne, Sarah
Baird, Kalpita
Mandefield, Laura
Brealey, Stephen
O’Hara, Jane
Foy, Robbie
Sheard, Laura
Cracknell, Alison
Breckin, Edmund
Hewitt, Catherine
Evaluating an intervention to improve the safety and experience of transitions from hospital to home for older people (Your Care Needs You): a protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial and process evaluation
title Evaluating an intervention to improve the safety and experience of transitions from hospital to home for older people (Your Care Needs You): a protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial and process evaluation
title_full Evaluating an intervention to improve the safety and experience of transitions from hospital to home for older people (Your Care Needs You): a protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial and process evaluation
title_fullStr Evaluating an intervention to improve the safety and experience of transitions from hospital to home for older people (Your Care Needs You): a protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial and process evaluation
title_full_unstemmed Evaluating an intervention to improve the safety and experience of transitions from hospital to home for older people (Your Care Needs You): a protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial and process evaluation
title_short Evaluating an intervention to improve the safety and experience of transitions from hospital to home for older people (Your Care Needs You): a protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial and process evaluation
title_sort evaluating an intervention to improve the safety and experience of transitions from hospital to home for older people (your care needs you): a protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial and process evaluation
topic Study Protocol
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10576890/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37838678
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-023-07716-z
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