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Hospital-to-Home Transitional Care Interventions (H2H-TCI) Children/Youth With Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN)
Hospital-to-Home Care Coordination for Children and Youth With Special Health Care Needs
Who can join
Up to age 18 · All sexes
Full eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria: * For this study, eligible children/youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and adult parent/caregiver dyads will be those who meet the following inclusion criteria: 1. Child is a CYSHCN, defined as having seen two or more distinct specialty areas for outpatient visits during the 12 months prior to index hospitalization admission date 2. Age of hospitalized child is under 18 years old 3. Child hospitalized on a general pediatrics inpatient service line at participating site 4. Adult parent/caregiver for the child is 18 years or older Exclusion Criteria: * Child exclusion criteria: 1. Child will be discharged to any location besides home (e.g., long-term care or residential facility, skilled nursing facility, inpatient acute rehabilitation, psychiatric facility) 2. Child is a ward of the state or has an ongoing social services investigation 3. Child is already receiving transitional care, intensive longitudinal care coordination (e.g., organ/disease-specific clinical program, clinical division within the same institution as the hospital \[e.g., Children's Complex Care Program at UNC; Complex Care Service at Duke\]), and/or longitudinal population health care coordination as part of a bundled alternative payment care model. * Parent/caregiver exclusion criteria include: 1. Age less than 18 years old 2. Diminished capacity to provide consent/participate 3. Primary language for parent/caregiver is any language besides English or Spanish
About the study
Aim 1: Compare the effectiveness of focused dose vs extended dose hospital-to-home Transitional Care Interventions (H2H-TCI) on health service use and parent-reported confidence for hospitalized CYSHCN. Aim 2: Compare the effectiveness of focused and extended dose H2H-TCI among vulnerable CYSHCN subgroups. Hypothesis: Both H2H-TCI arms will improve primary outcomes more for CYSHCN with higher versus lower clinical complexity; while extended H2H-TCI will better mitigate racial/ethnic outcome disparities than focused H2H-TCI. Aim 3: Evaluate implementation context, processes, and mechanisms via a multi-phase mixed methods study design.
What is being tested
- Focused Dose Hospital-to-Home Transitional Care Interventions (behavioral)
- Extended Dose Hospital-to-Home Transitional Care Interventions (behavioral)
Sponsor: Duke University · Participants: 480 · Started: Aug 28, 2025
Contact the study team
- Jennifer Thomas, MPH · Phone: (919) 613-5953
Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT06428175
Locations in the U.S.
| North Carolina | UNC Hospitals, Chapel Hill DUHS, Durham |
From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Oct 2, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.