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Health Care Hotspotting: A Randomized Controlled Trial

NCT02090426 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 800

Last updated 2020-11-19

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Summary

This trial investigates the value created by the highly innovative Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers' Care Management Program: Link2Care. The program targets "super-utilizers" of the health care system - specifically adults with 2 or more hospitalizations in the last six months 2 or more chronic conditions, and 5 or more outpatient medications - with intensive case management services. In particular, a team of nurses, social workers, community health workers and health coaches, supported by real-time data of healthcare utilization, perform home visits, accompany patients to doctor visits, and help patients enroll in social-service programs. This approach aims to improve the self-sufficiency of patients in navigating the healthcare and social-service systems and has the potential to reduce healthcare costs and improve patient health.

Conditions

  • High Utilizers of Hospital Care

Interventions

OTHER

Link2Care

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Amy N Finkelstein, PhD · The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab/MIT

  • Jeffery Brenner, MD · The Cooper Health System

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
19 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-06-02
Primary Completion
2018-10-31
Completion
2020-01-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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