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

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Diabetes Cardiovascular Disease Cardiovascular Diseases Chemically-Induced Disorders Chronic Disease Diabetes Mellitus Disease Attributes Endocrine System Diseases Glucose Metabolism Disorders Mental Disorders Mental Health Disorder Metabolic Diseases Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases Pathologic Processes Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms Substance Abuse Disorder Substance-Related Disorders

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Zip codes surrounding Johns Hopkins Hospital

Baltimore, Maryland, 21205, United States

About this study

see above

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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

Treatment and study plan

Co-developed IT intervention

Other

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

Other names: Healthify

Primary outcomes

Change in Emergency Department Visits + Hospital Days

Time frame: Pre-Intervention (09/01/2012 to 03/09/2014); Post-Intervention (03/10/2014-09/30/2015

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.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Other

Collaborators

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

Registry information

Acronym: CONNECT

Important dates

Study start: 2014
Primary completion: 2015
Study completion: 2015
First posted: Aug 22, 2014
Registry last updated: Feb 9, 2024

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