CURIOS@

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  CURIOS@: CaptUring Readmission InternatiOnally to Prevent Readmission by the Safer@Home group

• IRAS ID

  194105

• Contact name

  Christian P Subbe

• Contact email

  csubbe@hotmail.com

• Sponsor organisation

  University of Liverpool

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 11 months, 31 days

• Research summary

  What is CURIOS@? CURIOS@ is a study that tries to understand why patients return to hospital after a previous admission.
  What do we know about the subject? From international research we know that between 1 in 20 and 1 in 4 patients who have been admitted to hospital return to hospital again within a month of going home:
  • In some cases this is part of a planned follow-up.
  • In some cases this is part of the unpredictability of increasingly complicated medical conditions.
  • In some cases the return to hospital is unexpected for patients, carers and their hospital teams.
  What do we not know? CURIOS@ is trying to understand
  • If there are factors of the illness of patients that hospital teamsneed to take into account when planning discharge from hospital that are currently not part of the discussion with patients and carers.
  • What patients thought about the need to return to hospital.
  Who organizes CURIOS@? CURIOS@ is coordinated by safer@home.‘Safer’ stands for ‘Scoring Acute admissions For Estimating risk of Readmission’. Safer@home is an international consortium of senior doctors and hospital safety experts from the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, Denmark and Switzerland. This group has examined the literature and data from their own hospitalsfor reasons why patients return. CURIOS@ will help to fill some of the gaps in current knowledge of why patients have to return to hospital after being sent home.
  When will we hear results? CURIOS@ will recruit over 1500 patients who have returned to hospitals of the participating researchers in 2016 and report in 2017 at international meetings of the UK Society for Acute Medicine and other conferences. Based on CURIOS@ we are hoping to design better services that mean that less patients have to unexpectedly return to hospital. We don’t know as yet many patients would potentially benefit from the learning from CURIOS@.

• REC name

  Wales REC 5

• REC reference

  15/WA/0424

• Date of REC Opinion

  11 Jan 2016

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion