Navigation Services to Avoid Rehospitalization among Medical/Surgical Patients with Comorbid Substance Use Disorder: Rationale and Design of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT: Substance use disorders (SUDs) are associated with significant morbidity and mortality and contribute to inefficient use of healthcare services. Hospitalized medical/surgical patients with comorbid SUD are at elevated risk of hospital readmission and poor outcomes. Thus, effective interventions are needed to help such patients during hospitalization and post-discharge. This article reports the rationale, methodological design, and progress to date on a randomized trial comparing the effectiveness of Navigation Services to Avoid Rehospitalization (NavSTAR) vs Treatmentas-Usual (TAU) for hospital medical/surgical patients with comorbid SUD (N = 400). Applying Andersen's theoretical model of health service utilization, NavSTAR employed Patient Navigation and motivational interventions

SUBMITTER: Nordeck CD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9491361 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature