Status:

COMPLETED

Post-hospitalization Nursing Effectiveness (PHONE) Study

Lead Sponsor:

Wake Forest University

Conditions:

Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia

Prematurity

Eligibility:

All Genders

1-483 years

Phase:

PHASE3

Brief Summary

Based on success with telephone follow up for other groups of medically fragile infants, we designed an innovative model of post-hospital comprehensive and coordinated follow-up for infants with chron...

Detailed Description

METHODS Study design A randomized equivalence trial was designed to compare community-based follow up with medical-center based follow up. The primary outcome was assessed at one year adjusted age. S...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Infants were eligible if they were born before 33 weeks gestational age, required supplemental oxygen at 36 weeks gestational age, and were discharged home after neonatal intensive care.

Exclusion

  • Neonates who had major congenital anomalies and/ or had tracheostomy tubes were excluded. Also excluded were families in which the mother did not speak English, because the intervention depended on verbal communication with the nurse specialist, and families who lived more than 150 miles from our clinic because such families typically are referred to regional neonatal center closer to their home.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

May 1 1996

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

End Date :

August 1 2000

Estimated Enrollment :

150 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00314431

Start Date

May 1 1996

End Date

August 1 2000

Last Update

November 6 2017

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Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, 27157