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The Impact of Early Follow-up on Readmission Rates in AMI Patients

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT02276456

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Official title

The Impact of Early Versus Standard Post-Discharge Follow-up on Readmission Rates in Patients Admitted With Myocardial Infarction

Brief summary

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With no prior prospective study to demonstrate the benefit of an early post-discharge follow-up appointment in reducing readmission rates in the post-myocardial infarction (MI patient population, we propose to conduct the first randomized, prospective trial to better elucidate the association between early and standard follow-up on readmission rates. The investigators hypothesize that unlike heart failure or advanced valvular disease patients, the benefit of early outpatient follow-up in reducing readmission of post-MI patients will be less clear. Thus, the investigators primary aim will be to determine the effect of early outpatient follow-up post-discharge on 90 day all-cause readmission rates (exclusive of planned readmissions known at the time of discharge). Secondary aims are to describe 1) causes of readmissions within 90 days, 2) any cardiovascular-related complications and any deaths that occur from discharge through 90 days, 3) 30-day readmission rates and 4) median time to readmission among those readmitted. Finally, the investigators will examine the distribution of demographic, clinical and socioeconomic characteristic according to readmission vs. no readmission. The investigators do not expect to have sufficient endpoints for full predictive modeling, but believe this exploratory work will provide a foundation for future studies. The investigators postulate that the design and methodology of our current study could be used to answer similar questions in other subsets of patients.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT02276456
Recruitment status
Terminated
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Lead sponsor
Duke University
Other
Enrollment
221 participants

Conditions and interventions

Interventions

Behavioral

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years and older
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Accepts healthy volunteers

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Study timeline

Start date
Feb 28, 2014
Primary completion
Feb 29, 2020
Completion
Feb 29, 2020
Last update posted
Jan 23, 2022

2014 – 2020

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
Duke University Medical Center Durham North Carolina 27705

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