Reverse Innovation and Patient Engagement to Improve Quality of Care and Patient Outcomes

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Diabetes; Cardiovascular Disease; Substance Abuse Disorder; Mental Health Disorder

• Registration Number: NCT02222909
• Lead Sponsor: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Brief Summary

Project CONNECT ("Community-based Organizations Neighborhood Network: Enhancing Capacity Together") is a randomized controlled trial that involves 22 community-based organizations (CBOs) located in Baltimore, MD. Half of these organizations were randomly assigned to the intervention group using a constrained cluster randomization process. The remaining 11 are a part of the control intervention group. The intervention is a co-developed set of IT tools hypothesized to improve the connections among intervention CBOs, Johns Hopkins health care facilities and CBO clients.

Detailed Description

see above

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2014-04
• Study First Submitted: 2014-08-18
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-08-20
• Study First Posted: 2014-08-22
• Primary Completion: 2015-12
• Study Completion: 2015-12
• Results First Submitted: 2017-04-03
• Status Verified: 2023-06
• Results First Submitted QC: 2023-06-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-06-09
• Results First Posted: 2024-02-09
• Last Update Posted: 2024-02-09

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 6767

Inclusion Criteria

Community Based Organization; 501-C3 status; Located within zip codes surrounding Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center; Provides direct services to clients

Exclusion Criteria

Part of Johns Hopkins Medicine or Baltimore City Agency

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in Emergency Department Visits + Hospital Days	Pre-Intervention (09/01/2012 to 03/09/2014); Post-Intervention (03/10/2014-09/30/2015	The change in the average number of monthly emergency department visits and days spent in the hospital from the pre- intervention to the post-intervention period for J-CHiP patients assigned to each of the CBOs, adjusted for baseline prognostic variables.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Zip codes surrounding Johns Hopkins Hospital; 🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States