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Social Needs Screenings in ED

Sponsor
Andrea Wallace (Other)
Overall Status
Completed
CT.gov ID
NCT04630041
Collaborator
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) (U.S. Fed)
5,081
Enrollment
1
Location
1
Arm
17.1
Actual Duration (Months)
298
Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

This study will determine whether existing Health Information Technology can be leveraged to

  1. implement a universal, patient-centered social needs assessment and referral process during routine Emergency Department care; 2) understand whether linking social needs assessment, community based referral, and health outcomes data may facilitate an understanding of population health; and 3) address the needs and wishes of patients and clinicians.

Hypothesis: Results of this study will provide much needed information to already overburdened hospital systems regarding whether systematically incorporating social needs information and referrals into emergency discharge processes allows for a better understanding of factors placing patients at risk for poor outcomes post-discharge, and whether doing so has potential for enhancing discharge support for a larger patient population seen in emergency departments.

Condition or Disease Intervention/Treatment Phase
  • Behavioral: 211 Referral
 N/A

Study Design

Study Type:
Interventional
Actual Enrollment :
5081 participants
Allocation:
N/A
Intervention Model:
Single Group Assignment
Masking:
None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose:
Health Services Research
Official Title:
Implementation Barriers to Social Needs Screenings in Routine Emergency Care
Actual Study Start Date :
May 1, 2019
Actual Primary Completion Date :
Oct 1, 2020
Actual Study Completion Date :
Oct 1, 2020

Arms and Interventions

Arm Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: Social Needs Assessment

Patients in the Emergency Department will complete a social needs assessment screener that may refer them to 211 services

Behavioral: 211 Referral
Patients with one or more reported social need will be referred to 211 for community based services. 211 will reach out and contact patients for follow-up.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

  1. Health Utilization Outcome questionnaire [60 days]

    The variable will be created by combining primary care utilization (yes/no), ED revisit (yes/no), and hospitalization (yes/no) within 60 days of original ED visit. Scores range from 0 to 3. Higher scores indicate worse health utilization outcomes.

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:
18 Years and Older
Sexes Eligible for Study:
All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
No
Inclusion Criteria:

  • seen in the UHealth University hospital ED

  • ability to use touchpad technology

  • ability to communicate via telephone for 211 follow-up

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Non-English and non-Spanish speaking (English nor Spanish need not be the 1st language)

  • unable to communicate verbally

  • admitted to an inpatient unit or to a skilled nursing facility (vs discharged to a community-based setting where participants are responsible for their own self-care)

Contacts and Locations

Locations

Site City State Country Postal Code
1 University of Utah Salt Lake City Utah United States 84112

Sponsors and Collaborators

  • Andrea Wallace
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Investigators

None specified.

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.
Responsible Party:
Andrea Wallace, Associate Professor, University of Utah
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT04630041
Other Study ID Numbers:
  • 00125877
First Posted:
Nov 16, 2020
Last Update Posted:
Nov 16, 2020
Last Verified:
Nov 1, 2020
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:
No
Plan to Share IPD:
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product:
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product:
No
Keywords provided by Andrea Wallace, Associate Professor, University of Utah
Emergencies
Social needs

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Nov 16, 2020