Effects of a standardized community health worker intervention on hospitalization among disadvantaged patients with multiple chronic conditions: A pooled analysis of three clinical trials.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To analyze the effects of a standardized community health worker (CHW) intervention on hospitalization.

Data sources/study setting

Pooled data from three randomized clinical trials (n = 1340) conducted between 2011 and 2016.

Study design

The trials in this pooled analysis were conducted across diseases and settings, with a common study design, intervention, and outcome measures. Participants were patients living in high-poverty regions of Philadelphia and were predominantly Medicaid insured. They were randomly assigned to receive usual care versus IMPaCT, an intervention in which CHWs provide tailored social support, health behavior coaching, connection with resources, and health system navigation. Trial one (n = 446) tested two weeks of IMPaCT among hospita

SUBMITTER: Vasan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7518822 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature