This paper describes the design and baseline characteristics of a pragmatic randomized comparative effectiveness trial of transitional care.
In a systematic review including twenty-one randomized clinical trials of transitional care interventions targeting chronically ill adults Naylor et al. found a substantial heterogeneity in the populations, settings, interventions and methodologies, which could influence the study results.
These studies necessarily begin in highly supervised hospital settings and progress through early feasibility, transitional, and, finally, pivotal trials, each with step-wise reduction in monitoring requirements as system performance and functionality are established under normal and stress conditions.
Participants were those who consented to be part of a trial evaluating a transitional care facility for older hospitalised patients waiting for a residential aged care bed.
As part of a randomized controlled trial evaluating a transitional care facility [ 15], we assessed the HRQoL of older people awaiting first-time transfer to residential aged care using the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) measure [ 17- 19].
Rangelov, a comparative scholar of transitional justice, notes that "the trials of Klaus Barbie and Paul Touvier were intended to tell the story of French resistance to German occupation and to minimise the criminal legacy of the Vichy regime".
TRIPOLI, Libya (Reuters) — Tunisia extradited Libya's former prime minister to Libya on Sunday, making him the first senior official to be returned for trial under Libya's transitional leadership.
His recent announcement that he will be the first to stand trial in any country for transitional justice was well received, and confirmed people's faith in him to lead Libya into the transition.
Future transitional care programs using a randomized control trial design and measuring other clinical outcomes such as quality of life and cost-effective analyses are needed to provide more precise information of the clinical and economic impact of such programs.
However, a systematic review of transitional care programs has determined that most trials of transitional care programs exclude people with cognitive impairment and dementia and high risk older adults [ 25].
