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A Virtual Navigation Intervention to Reduce Behavioral Health Admissions From Rural Emergency Departments

NCT04148521 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1089

Last updated 2023-03-21

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Summary

This research project is a pragmatic, randomized evaluation of a quality improvement initiative which seeks to evaluate the effects of standardizing the use of a BH-VPN program among patients with a telepsychiatric consult. The outcomes evaluation of this intervention has been designed to integrate with routine care and minimize frontline staff burden by deploying an evaluation in a real-world setting.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Behavioral Health - Virtual Patient Navigation

Patients are identified by a clinician in the ED as needing psychiatric evaluation and a referral is made to a tele-psych provider for a virtual consult. Patients can be enrolled to the intervention arm based on a randomization scheme that randomly allocates days that navigators are available. The psychiatrist will make a recommendation to admit or discharge the patient. For patients that have a discharge recommendation on days that BH-VPN is available, patients will be offered the BH-VPN program. Enrolled patients are followed for up to 45 days. On days where the navigator is available, all patients who meet eligibility criteria will be considered exposed to the intervention.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Duke Endowment

    collaborator OTHER

  • Wake Forest University Health Sciences

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jason Roberge, PhD · Wake Forest University Health Sciences

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-10-14
Primary Completion
2021-10-31
Completion
2022-01-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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