September 2, 2020Pilot and Feasibility StudiesOpen Access

Improving patient experience and safety at transitions of care through the Your Care Needs You (YCNY) intervention: a study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled feasibility trial

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Why the study?

Patients often experience safety issues transitioning from hospital to home, but evidence remains equivocal on effective transition interventions.

Does the Your Care Needs You (YCNY) intervention improve feasibility metrics for a definitive trial in patients aged 75 years and over transitioning from hospital to home?

Comparison

Your Care Needs You intervention vs usual care

Design

Multi-centred cluster randomised controlled feasibility trial

Follow-up

Up to 90-days post-discharge

Authors

RBRuth BaxterUniversity of Leeds JMJenni MurrayBradford Royal Infirmary JOJane O’HaraUniversity of Leeds

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Implication

Supports feasibility of YCNY for older adults' hospital-to-home transitions; extends pilot data toward definitive efficacy trials.

Structured PICO

Does the Your Care Needs You (YCNY) intervention improve feasibility metrics for a definitive trial in patients aged 75 years and over transitioning from hospital to home?

Population

Up to 200 patients aged 75 years and over, anticipated to be discharged to their own home or that of a relative, staying for at least one night on a participating ward (including older peoples' medicine, trauma and orthopaedics, cardiology, intermediate care, and stroke).

Intervention

Your Care Needs You (YCNY) intervention, comprising a patient-facing booklet, an educational film, a patient-friendly care summary at discharge, and staff facilitation to support patient involvement.

Comparator

Usual care according to the Trust's standard policies and procedures.

Outcome

Measures of feasibility including screening, recruitment, and retention data, and processes required to collect routine data at a patient and ward level.

This study protocol outlines a feasibility cluster randomized controlled trial to evaluate an intervention aimed at improving patient experience and safety during transitions from hospital to home for older adults.

Cite This Study

Baxter et al. (2020) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a729dc75d37378ac1df51aa https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-020-00655-5

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Improving patient experience and safety at transitions of care through the Your Care Needs You (YCNY) intervention: a study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled feasibility trial

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Improving patient experience and safety at transitions of care through the Your Care Needs You (YCNY) intervention: a study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled feasibility trial

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Structured PICO

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