Clinical Trial: Development and Pilot Testing the SITe Intervention
Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: RECRUITING
Condition: Emergency General Surgery
Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
Official Title: Development and Pilot Testing of an Intervention to Support Interhospital Transfer Decisions (SITe) Regarding Older Adults With Emergency General Surgery Diagnoses
Brief Summary:
Every year, nearly 240,000 patients age 65 and older are transferred between acute care hospitals for nontraumatic surgical emergencies, and these patients experience worse outcomes than patients admitted directly from an emergency department within a given hospital.Care coordination for older patients with emergency general surgery (EGS) diagnoses suffers because conversations between referring and accepting providers regarding decisions to transfer are ineffective, incomplete, and inefficient.To standardize a…
Read more