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
• Interventions: Other: Co-developed IT intervention

• 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

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention CBOs	Co-developed IT intervention	Will receive "co-developed IT intervention" developed together with intervention group community based members. Set of primarily web based tools to improve connection with clients, Johns Hopkins Medicine and one another, referrals, and volunteer services.

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