Community-Clinical Linkages With Community Health Workers in the United States: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT: Despite the proliferation of community-clinical linkage (CCL) interventions with community health workers (CHWs), little is known about the components of these programs or how linkages are realized. In this scoping review, we synthesize evidence concerning the role of CHWs in creating and sustaining CCLs aimed at improving individual health outcomes. Our inclusion criteria included peer-reviewed articles that described a CHW intervention in the United States that used a CCL model. A total of 2,776 titles and/or abstracts were screened and 47 articles underwent full text review. Two independent reviewers rated the screened articles based on additional criteria including the CHW connection to community and evidence of linkage follow up rather than simple referral. For the 11 peer-reviewed ar

SUBMITTER: Lohr AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6690722 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature