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Evaluating Novel Approaches That Engage and Support Vulnerable Patient Groups to Equitably Access Primary Care

NCT07439627 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2026-03-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The goal of this initial clinical trial is to gather information for building a future national trial in Canada that can continuously look at different ways of helping people made vulnerable get a primary care provider. The trial will take place in the Toronto region and will help researchers decide how to plan the future trial.

The main question that this trial is aiming to answer is:

• For those made vulnerable who do not currently have a primary care provider, will assistance from a Primary Care Connector trained specifically with knowledge of the local health system, help to better connect those people to primary care providers compared to written information alone?

Researchers will compare giving participants the name of a provider that is accepting new patients in their area, to only giving participants existing information on how to find a provider, to see if giving the name of a provider accepting new patients works better to help people get connected to a provider.

Participants will:

* Get the name of a primary care provider in their area who is accepting new patients or get existing information on how to find a primary care provider.
* Call the provider to try and get an appointment or use the information given to find a provider.
* Tell the study team if they have found a provider.

Conditions

  • Access to Primary Care

Interventions

OTHER

Primary care connector

A primary care connector will give participants the name of a primary care provider in their area who is accepting new patients based on a list containing this information generated prior to the start of the trial.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Unity Health Toronto

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Andrew D. Pinto, MD CCFP FRCPC MSc · Unity Health Toronto

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-03-31
Primary Completion
2026-07-31
Completion
2026-07-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

View NCT07439627 on ClinicalTrials.gov