846
Participants
Start Date
February 28, 2006
Primary Completion Date
May 31, 2009
Study Completion Date
September 30, 2009
Health Education Program
The augmented intervention will consist of just-in-time nurse, patient and physician information and feedback during the post-acute period, plus transition to an ongoing Home-Based HTN Support Program within approximately 30 days after the patient's admission to home health care. The augmented intervention adds an HTN Nurse Specialist (advanced practice nurse) and a lay community health worker, who will be responsible for assuring a patient's smooth transition to the Home-Based HTN Support Program and for delivering the main components of that intervention, backed up by the project physician.
Basic Group
"The basic information and referral intervention will deliver key just-in-time information to nurses, patients and patients' physicians while the patient is receiving post-acute home care services. The basic intervention relies on care provided by home health nurses during the routine home health stay."
Control Group
Usual Care
Visiting Nurse Service of New York
OTHER