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

Diabetes Clinical Trial

— CONNECT  

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02222909
• Other study ID #: CD-12-11-4948
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 2014
• Est. completion date: December 2015

Study information

• Verified date: June 2023
• Source: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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.

Description:

see above

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 6767
• Est. completion date: December 2015
• Est. primary completion date: December 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cardiovascular Disease
• Cardiovascular Diseases
• Diabetes
• Mental Disorders
• Mental Health Disorder
• Substance Abuse Disorder
• Substance-Related Disorders

Intervention

Other:
• Co-developed IT intervention
The IT-based intervention is being co-developed with the community based organizations in the intervention group, and comprises tools to improve referral and tracking of clients, use of volunteers, and direct communication with hospital staff members

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Zip codes surrounding Johns Hopkins Hospital	Baltimore	Maryland

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health	Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change in Emergency Department Visits + Hospital Days	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.	Pre-Intervention (09/01/2012 to 03/09/2014); Post-Intervention (03/10/2014-09/30/2015