Interventions to Improve HIV Care Engagement After Hospital Discharge

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: HIV/AIDS
• Interventions: Other: Strategies to improve HIV care engagement

• Registration Number: NCT02578654
• Lead Sponsor: Thammasat University

Brief Summary

A quasi-experitmental study of the efficacy interventions, including additional HIV care team daily inpatient round and three telephone calls to remind the upcoming clinic appointment, in improving HIV care engagement within 30 days after hospital discharge among HIV-infected patients.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-11
• Study First Submitted: 2015-10-14
• Study First Submitted QC: 2015-10-15
• Study First Posted: 2015-10-19
• Status Verified: 2016-04
• Primary Completion: 2016-04
• Study Completion: 2016-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-04-22
• Last Update Posted: 2016-04-25

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 240

Inclusion Criteria

• HIV-infected patients hospitalized at Thammasat University Hospital during the study period

Exclusion Criteria

• The patients who die during admission, are readmitted prior to 30 days after discharge or with incomplete data
• Readmission episodes of the same enrolled patients during the study period

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Interventions	Strategies to improve HIV care engagement	Additional HIV care team daily inpatient round and three telephone calls to remind the upcoming clinic appointment. These interventions are specifically added on "routine care" during the post-intervention period. The routine care does not include the additional round and the three telephone calls and is assessed during the pre-intervention period.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of HIV-infected patients who come to the designated HIV clinic for follow-up within 30 days after hospital discharge divided by the total number of enrolled HIV-infected patients	30 days

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Factors associated with no follow-up withing 30 days after hospital discharge(analyzed in multivariable logistic regression)	30 days

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University; 🇹🇭 Pathumthani, Thailand