Implementation of COVID-19 Testing Strategies in Community Health Centers

Summary

This project is part of a competitive revision to accelerate COVID-19 testing in underserved populations. The overall aim is to implement strategies to expand COVID testing in hotspot communities in MA, through 6 community health center (CHC)-community partnerships. A base strategy will be implemented at all sites. A tailored strategy unique to local populations will be added and tested in a stepped wedge design.

Conditions

• Covid19

Interventions

OTHER

RADx CHCs testing intervention strategy

The study team will support partner CHCs to implement workflows with some combination of dedicated testing staff, off-site testing, outreach/communications to priority populations, and linkage with local contact tracing systems. Implementation support will take the form of practice facilitation, rapid cycle testing (by supporting CHCs to review their internal data to assess the impact of workflow changes), and expert consultation from the research team on testing technology and testing location design.

OTHER

Usual care control

CHCs implement testing strategies in accordance with their usual supports.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

  collaborator OTHER

• Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)

  collaborator OTHER

• Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers

  collaborator OTHER

• National Cancer Institute (NCI)

  collaborator NIH

• Massachusetts General Hospital

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Elsie Taveras, MD, MPH · Massachusetts General Hospital

• Karen Emmons, PhD · Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)

• Susan Dargon-Hart, LICSW · Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2020-12-01

Primary Completion

2022-07-15

Completion

2022-07-15

Countries

• United States

Study Locations