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Community Health Worker Care Transitions Study

NCT03085264 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 600

Last updated 2020-02-24

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Summary

This study focuses on pairing community health workers (CHWs) with patients that are high risk for readmission prior to hospital discharge in order to assess differences in hospital readmission rates, ED visits, patient satisfaction and provider satisfaction as compared to patients without community health worker pairings at discharge.

Conditions

  • Hospitalism

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Community Health Worker

Community Health Workers calls, texts and visits patient to support them in pre-established care plans as well as medication compliance/appointment attendance

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Massachusetts General Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jocelyn A Carter, M.D. · Massachusetts General Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
109 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-04-07
Primary Completion
2019-05-30
Completion
2019-10-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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