Community Health Worker Care Transitions Study

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Hospitalism

In brief

This study focuses on pairing community health workers (CHWs) with patients that are high risk for readmission prior to hospital discharge in order to assess differences in hospital readmission rates, ED visits, patient satisfaction and provider satisfaction as compared to patients without community health worker pairings at discharge.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03085264

Run by

Massachusetts General Hospital

People needed

600

Starts

2017-04-07

Expected to finish

2019-10-30

Last updated by the study team

2020-02-24

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 109. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Inclusion criteria will include the following: enrollment in a Partners Risk Contract; agreement to participate in the study with ability to consent to enrollment, working phone number for patient contact and patient address of residence within 15 mile radius on MGH 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA.

You may not qualify if…

• Exclusion criteria will include a lack of capacity to consent to enrollment ( including prisoner status) or lack of cognitive ability to complete the survey, living outside of a 15 mile radius of the MGH 55 Fruit street location and having a primary care provider outside the MGH system.

Where it is running

• Massachusetts General Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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