Social Needs Screenings in ED

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Social Determinants of Health
• Interventions: Behavioral: 211 Referral

• Registration Number: NCT04630041
• Lead Sponsor: Andrea Wallace

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2019-05-01
• Primary Completion: 2020-10-01
• Study Completion: 2020-10-01
• Status Verified: 2020-11
• Study First Submitted: 2020-11-11
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-11-13
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-11-13
• Study First Posted: 2020-11-16
• Last Update Posted: 2020-11-16

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 5081

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)

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Social Needs Assessment	211 Referral	Patients in the Emergency Department will complete a social needs assessment screener that may refer them to 211 services

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
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.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Utah; 🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States