Emergency Department Linkage to Care for Patients Experiencing Homelessness

Обзор

In an effort to improve access to primary care at time of discharge, patients who are homeless will be given either enhanced follow up through a street medicine team or routine follow up in clinic.

Подробное описание

Patients who experience homelessness frequently utilize the ED, but lack follow up primary care. In an effort to augment access to post-ED primary care, the investigators propose a quasi-experimental equivalent time sample study in which patients fitting certain diagnostic and inclusion criteria are allocated to either a) a referral to the Comprehensive Care Clinic at Denver Health, or b) a referral to Colorado Coalition for the Homeless (CCH) Stout Street medicine clinic. The street medicine clinic aims to lower barriers to access by locating patients on the street and providing primary care rather than asking patients to present to clinic. All patients will still receive the hospital appointment line number at time of discharge. 1 month and 3 months after index visit, the investigators will examine follow up rates at both clinics as well as secondary outcomes including ED visits, hospitalizations, and mortality through chart review of Denver Health and CCH electronic health records and CORHIO.

Вмешательства

• Поведенческое Street medicine follow up
  This intervention will use electronic health record builds to automatically send a referral to a street medicine clinic, who will attempt to contact the patient within 2 weeks.

Первичные конечные точки

• ED visits [Срок оценки: 1 and 3 months]

Вторичные конечные точки (2)

• Inpatient hospitalizations [Срок оценки: 1 and 3 months]
• Mortality [Срок оценки: 3 months]

Критерии участия

Критерии включения

• adult (≥18 years of age) DHMC ED patient,
• currently unsheltered, defined as living on the streets, in a vehicle, or in another place not fit for human habitation,
• anticipating ED discharge, with
• a diagnosis listed below that requires short-term follow up:

• COPD or asthma exacerbation
• Bacterial or viral pneumonia
• CHF with volume overload
• SSTI
• Dehydration requiring IV fluids
• Hyperglycemia secondary to DM
• Frostbite
• First- and second-degree burns
• Bacterial ENT infections
• Diabetic foot infection
• Traumatic head injury
• Pregnancy
• Opioid overdose
• a stable location (i.e., an intersection, landmark, or encampment where they can be located by the street medicine team) within Denver County for at least 2 weeks.

Критерии исключения

• have altered mentation (e.g., intoxication, or secondary to medical, psychiatric, or behavioral conditions) that are unable to communicate their location, contact information, or agree to follow up.
• are prisoners,
• previously enrolled.

Критерии приведены из реестра в оригинале (на английском). Окончательную оценку соответствия проводит исследовательский центр.

Здоровые добровольцы: Нет

Дизайн исследования

Распределение

Нерандомизированное

Модель

Параллельные группы

Маскирование

Простое слепое

Основная цель

Организация здравоохранения

Центры проведения

США · 1 центр

• Denver Health Medical Center — Denver

Идентификаторы

NCT: NCT07209072 · COMIRB 24-1764 · F32HS030344

Первоисточники (государственные реестры)

• ClinicalTrials.gov (NIH, США)

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