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A Case Management Study Targeted to Reduce Health Care Utilization for Frequent Emergency Department Visitors

NCT01985074 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 15000

Last updated 2015-09-15

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The aim of the study is to determine whether a nurse-managed telephone-based case-management intervention can reduce healthcare utilization and improve self-assessed health status in frequent emergency department users.

Conditions

  • The Focus is to Investigate Effect of a Case Management Interventions in Frequent Visitors to Emergency Departments

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Case-management intervention

The participants in the intervention group receives a nurse-managed case-management intervention that is regularly delivered by telephone or, when necessary, in person.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Region Stockholm

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Ostergotland County Council, Sweden

    collaborator OTHER

  • Vastra Gotaland Region

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Uppsala County Council, Sweden

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Sormland County Council, Sweden

    collaborator OTHER

  • Health Navigator

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Gsutaf Edgren, MD PhD · Health Navigator

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-07-31
Primary Completion
2015-04-30
Completion
2016-12-31

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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