Home rehab trial could change Post-Hospital recovery
NCT ID NCT06416670
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jul 21, 2026 · Updated 2 times
Summary
This study compares getting skilled nursing care at home versus in a traditional facility for people who need rehabilitation after a hospital stay. About 300 adults will be randomly assigned to either recover at home with a technology-supported care team or go to a skilled nursing facility. The main goal is to see if home care leads to similar or better improvements in daily activities.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- skilled nursing facility care at home
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could offer a more comfortable and potentially lower-cost way to recover from a hospital stay, without needing to go to a nursing facility.
- What could go wrong
- This is a relatively small trial (300 people) and results may not apply to everyone. Home care might not provide the same level of intensive therapy as a facility, and some patients may not have a safe home environment for recovery.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 300 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jun 2024
- Expected to finish
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Sep 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.
- 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: * \>=18 years old * Requires SNF PAC care following hospitalization, as determined by the inpatient team (requires documented rehabilitative therapy recommendation) * Community-dwelling before hospitalization * Likely to return to community-dwelling status following short-term rehabilitation as determined by RAH liaison * Lives within 10 miles of any study site hospital (or per specified catchment) * Surgical trauma and elective patients (weight bearing as tolerated and transfer with no more than one-person assist) * Neurology patients - Stroke (needs acute rehabilitation, but insurance will not cover, so bound for SNF. Does not meet acute rehabilitation criteria and does not need long-term placement) Exclusion Criteria: * Environmental * Undomiciled * No working heat (October-April), no working air conditioning if forecast \> 80°F, or no running water * In police custody * Resides in a facility that does not allow advanced on-site care * Domestic violence screen positive * Weapons that cannot be appropriately secured * Difficulty accessing the bathroom (unless there is space for a bedside commode where the patient sleeps or if the patient is entirely dependent on toileting) * Home has insufficient accessible space to sleep, eat, and perform rehabilitative therapy * Home lacks sufficient kitchen facilities to either cook or heat meals * Patient, or patient's family caregiver, unable to communicate via telephone * Patient, or patient's family caregiver, lacks consistent access to a telephone * Clinical * Requires more than one assist (unless the family can provide additional 24/7 assistance) * Requires care of new ostomy or teaching ostomy care * Requires frequent suctioning, tracheostomy, and ventilator needs * Requires total parenteral nutrition * Requires nasogastric tube feeds * Requires durable medical equipment not already in place at home and excluded below * Requires daily subcutaneous injection unless patient or family caregiver is teachable and able to administer daily * Acute delirium noted by RAH liaison requiring more than one caregiver * Active psychiatric diagnosis without an adequate treatment plan * On methadone requiring daily pickup of medication * Requires administration of intravenous controlled substances * Requires administration of specialty medications not already in place at home * Requires transfusion of blood products * Requires three times weekly or more transfers back and forth to obtain specialty medical care * Requires hemodialysis * Orthopedic trauma and elective patients * Traumatic brain injury * Wound or appliance care that requires daily nursing care * For spine trauma: neurologic deficits requiring more than one assist * Neurology patients * PRESS score (for ischemic stroke; use PRESS app): no return to pre-stroke diet \> 50% * FUNC score (for primary intracerebral hemorrhage only): \<75% probability of functional independence at 90 days * ASTRAL score (for ischemic stroke only and patients with pre-stroke independence \[Modified Rankin Scale 0-2\]): \<75% probability of a 90-day poor functional outcome (Modified Rankin Scale result of 3-6) * RAH census is full
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Boston Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts, 02118, United States
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Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, 02130, United States
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Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, 02120, United States
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Cambridge Health Alliance
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, United States
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Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, 02114, United States
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