Reverse Innovation and Patient Engagement to Improve Quality of Care and Patient Outcomes (CONNECT)

June 9, 2023 updated by: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

see above

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

6767

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • Maryland
      • Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21205
        • Zip codes surrounding Johns Hopkins Hospital

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child
  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

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

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intervention CBOs
Will receive "co-developed IT intervention" developed together with intervention group community based members. Set of primarily web based tools to improve connection with clients, Johns Hopkins Medicine and one another, referrals, and volunteer services.
Other: Co-developed IT intervention
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
No Intervention: Control CBOs
Community Based Organizations that are being followed for data collection only for the period of one year

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
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.
Pre-Intervention (09/01/2012 to 03/09/2014); Post-Intervention (03/10/2014-09/30/2015

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Collaborators

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Albert W Wu, MD MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

April 1, 2014

Primary Completion (Actual)

December 1, 2015

Study Completion (Actual)

December 1, 2015

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

August 18, 2014

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 20, 2014

First Posted (Estimated)

August 22, 2014

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimated)

February 9, 2024

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

June 9, 2023

Last Verified

June 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • CD-12-11-4948

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

IPD Plan Description

No plan to share IPD with other researchers.

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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