Navigator programme for hospitalised adults experiencing homelessness: protocol for a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

People experiencing homelessness suffer from poor outcomes after hospitalisation due to systemic barriers to care, suboptimal transitions of care, and intersecting health and social burdens. Case management programmes have been shown to improve housing stability, but their effects on broad posthospital outcomes in this population have not been rigorously evaluated. The Navigator Programme is a Critical Time Intervention case management programme that was developed to help homeless patients with their postdischarge needs and to link them with community-based health and social services. This randomised controlled trial examines the impact of the Navigator Programme on posthospital outcomes among adults experiencing homelessness.

Methods and analysis

This is a prag

SUBMITTER: Liu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9756200 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature