Next-Day clinic aims to cut hospital admissions for common ailments
NCT ID NCT06526884
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tested a new clinic that sees emergency room patients the next day for conditions like pneumonia, heart failure, and kidney injury. The goal was to avoid hospital stays and improve patient care. About 570 adults took part, and researchers measured how many days they were alive and out of the hospital.
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Study facts
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- 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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570 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Jul 2024
- Finished
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Mar 2026
- 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 of age or older * About to be admitted through the ED for one of the NDC diagnoses or a synonym (per Study Protocol document), defined by the presence of a Plan to Admit order or Bed Request order, OR recently admitted under observation or inpatient status for one of the NDC diagnoses. * Identified as at-risk for an avoidable hospitalization in the ED based on a pre-determined set of lab and vital parameters. * Insurance that authorizes the patient to follow-up at UCLA Health, or self-pay * Admitted or being admitted to an internal medicine service Exclusion Criteria: * Heart or lung transplant recipient with concern for graft dysfunction * Pregnant * Enrolled in hospice * Admitted to a critical care service * ED deems discharge unsafe due to complex social or medical factors * Active malignant cancer (per Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists value set) * Pulmonary arterial hypertension (per Joint Commission value set) * Undergoing workup for solid organ transplant * Interstitial lung disease (including pulmonary fibrosis) (per Higher Level 7 value set) * Requiring inpatient procedure or surgery defined by the presence of an anesthesia event or operating room encounter. * The ED deems discharge unsafe due to complex social or medical factors. * Transferred to an ineligible hospital Note: The Health System plans to limit the volume of referrals to the NDC by only referring patients who have an even birth date (this is more equitable than first-come-first-serve, because wage workers are more likely to come to the ED later in the day; even/odd birth date theoretically keeps more spots open for patients presenting to the ED later).
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Los Angeles, California, 90024, United States
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