Bringing the hospital to your living room: a massive study tests home care for common illnesses
NCT ID NCT05952999
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looks at whether treating patients at home for conditions like infections, heart failure, diabetes, and COPD can lead to better health outcomes and satisfaction compared to traditional hospital stays. Nearly 10,000 adults will receive hospital-level care at home, including remote monitoring and nurse visits. Researchers will track deaths, readmissions, and patient feedback to see if this approach is effective and safe.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
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About 9,654 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Aug 2023
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
Who is studied
The study population will consist of individuals who are receiving care in the hospital at home program and those who are hospitalized but choose to receive hospital care in the home setting after a short period in the hospital. All those enrolled in the Hospital at Home Program will be strategically identified and used as the population for the quantitative and qualitative portions of the study.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * 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 Exclusion Criteria: * 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
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Conditions
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How to take part
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The places running it
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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OSF HealthCare
Peoria, Illinois, 61602, United States
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