Studies hospital-at-home care delivered through digital tools for adults
Examines a digital hospital-at-home care model in adults with infections, heart failure, or diabetes.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- OSF Healthcare System
- Where
- Peoria, United StatesSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Analysis of the Virtual Acute Care at Home Experience
- Status
- Enrolling by invitation
- People taking part
- 9,654 people, planned
- Started
- 15 Aug 2023
- Expected to end
- 31 Dec 2026
- Type of study
- Observational, 2 groups
- Treatments tested
- Digital Care Solution as supportive personalized care
- Traditional Hospital Level Care
- Record updated
- 17 March 2026
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for adults admitted to a Hospital at Home program, or inpatients who can get hospital-level care at home. Caregivers and clinical staff can also join.
- Age
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All sexes can join
- Disease stage
- Illnesses that the hospital accepts for home care, such as heart failure, respiratory infections, renal failure, diabetes, pneumonia, bronchitis, COPD, fever and viral illnesses. Clinicians decide the diagnosis.
- Earlier treatment
- Patients come from the emergency department or from inpatient care and need hospital-level care that can be given at home.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Need for long-term facility level care
- Currently living in a long-term care facility
- Living more than 30 minutes' drive from the hospital
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Patients 18 years and older who are admitted into the Hospital at Home program after presenting to the emergency department or who are inpatients that can be cared at home for hospital level needs
- Patients meeting the hospital's criteria for admission by diagnosis type (e.g., heart failure, respiratory infections and inflammations, renal failure, diabetes, pneumonia, bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, fever and inflammatory conditions, viral illnesses, other disorders of the nervous system). Diagnoses are determined by clinicians not researchers
- Patients will need to reside within 30 minutes' drive time from the hospital; Patient caregiver inclusion criteria: (not required for patient participation):
- Age >= 18 years old
- as capacity to consent to study; Clinician or stakeholder inclusion criteria:
- Any member of the home hospital clinical team (a healthcare professional who providing care or equipment for use in the home) who will be participating in delivery of healthcare services,
- Any member of the hospital care teams, including the screening and recruitment of patients for the home hospital intervention and/or providing care to patients that enroll in the intervention that is provided
- Any member of the leadership team who are involved in the operational aspects of program delivery
Who cannot take part
- Need for long-term facility level care or current residence in a facility of this type
- No one will be excluded on the basis of sex or race
Where in United States
- OSF HealthCarePeoria, United StatesNo longer taking part
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The purpose of this study is to examine the implementation, intervention effectiveness, and dissemination of a digital acute care delivery model for improving selected health outcomes in the Hospital at Home population.
The 2 groups in the trial
- Hospital at Home Care
The population for this study includes adult patients who are acutely ill and presenting to the emergency room, and are discharged to their home for hospital-level care in the home setting. The patients in this cohort may also include those who are discharged from the hospital early, but receive hospital-level care in the home setting.
Treatment: Digital Care Solution as supportive personalized care
- Traditional Hospital Care
The population for this study includes adult patients who are acutely ill and presenting to the emergency room who elect not to be discharged, choose to be cared for in the hospital setting.
Treatment: Traditional Hospital Level Care
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Examining the Intervention Effectiveness of Hospital at Home for Improving Health Outcomes and Experiences for Patients, Clinicians, and Caregivers
- Plain-language title
- Studies hospital-at-home care delivered through digital tools for adultsGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 12 November 2026.
- Record updated
- 17 March 2026