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Title: Impact of an educational program to reduce healthcare resources in community-acquired pneumonia: The EDUCAP randomized controlled trial
Author: Adamuz Tomás, Jordi
Viasus, Diego
Simonetti, Antonella Francesca
Jiménez Martínez, Emilio
Molero, Lorena
González Samartino, Maribel
Castillo, Elena
Juvé Udina, Eulàlia
Alcocer, María-Jesús
Hernández, Carme
Buera, María Pilar
Roel Fernández, Asunción
Abad, Emilia
Zabalegui Yárnoz, Adelaida
Ricart, Pilar
González, Anna
Isla Pera, Ma. Pilar (María Pilar)
Dorca i Sargatal, Jordi
Garcia Vidal, Carolina
Carratalà, Jordi
Keywords: Pneumònia
Consum d'alcohol
Educació sanitària
Malalts hospitalitzats
Pneumonia
Drinking of alcoholic beverages
Health education
Hospital patients
Issue Date: 13-Oct-2015
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Additional healthcare visits and rehospitalizations after discharge are frequent among patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and have a major impact on healthcare costs. We aimed to determine whether the implementation of an individualized educational program for hospitalized patients with CAP would decrease subsequent healthcare visits and readmissions within 30 days of hospital discharge. METHODS: A multicenter, randomized trial was conducted from January 1, 2011 to October 31, 2014 at three hospitals in Spain. We randomly allocated immunocompetent adults patients hospitalized for CAP to receive either an individualized educational program or conventional information before discharge. The educational program included recommendations regarding fluid intake, adherence to drug therapy and preventive vaccines, knowledge and management of the disease, progressive adaptive physical activity, and counseling for alcohol and smoking cessation. The primary trial endpoint was a composite of the frequency of additional healthcare visits and rehospitalizations within 30 days of hospital discharge. Intention-to-treat analysis was performed. RESULTS: We assigned 102 patients to receive the individualized educational program and 105 to receive conventional information. The frequency of the composite primary end point was 23.5% following the individualized program and 42.9% following the conventional information (difference, -19.4%; 95% confidence interval, -6.5% to -31.2%; P = 0.003). CONCLUSIONS: The implementation of an individualized educational program for hospitalized patients with CAP was effective in reducing subsequent healthcare visits and rehospitalizations within 30 days of discharge. Such a strategy may help optimize available healthcare resources and identify post-acute care needs in patients with CAP. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Controlled-Trials.com ISRCTN39531840.
Note: Reproducció del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140202
It is part of: PLoS One, 2015, vol. 10, num. 10, p. 1-12
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/67648
Related resource: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140202
ISSN: 1932-6203
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