Social Needs Screenings in ED

November 13, 2020 updated by: Andrea Wallace

Implementation Barriers to Social Needs Screenings in Routine Emergency Care

This study will determine whether existing Health Information Technology can be leveraged to 1) implement a universal, patient-centered social needs assessment and referral process during routine Emergency Department care; 2) understand whether linking social needs assessment, community based referral, and health outcomes data may facilitate an understanding of population health; and 3) address the needs and wishes of patients and clinicians.

Hypothesis: Results of this study will provide much needed information to already overburdened hospital systems regarding whether systematically incorporating social needs information and referrals into emergency discharge processes allows for a better understanding of factors placing patients at risk for poor outcomes post-discharge, and whether doing so has potential for enhancing discharge support for a larger patient population seen in emergency departments.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

5081

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
    • Utah
      • Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 84112
        • University of Utah

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

18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • seen in the UHealth University hospital ED
  • ability to use touchpad technology
  • ability to communicate via telephone for 211 follow-up

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Non-English and non-Spanish speaking (English nor Spanish need not be the 1st language)
  • unable to communicate verbally
  • admitted to an inpatient unit or to a skilled nursing facility (vs discharged to a community-based setting where participants are responsible for their own self-care)

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: N/A
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Social Needs Assessment
Patients in the Emergency Department will complete a social needs assessment screener that may refer them to 211 services
Behavioral: 211 Referral
Patients with one or more reported social need will be referred to 211 for community based services. 211 will reach out and contact patients for follow-up.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Health Utilization Outcome questionnaire
Time Frame: 60 days
The variable will be created by combining primary care utilization (yes/no), ED revisit (yes/no), and hospitalization (yes/no) within 60 days of original ED visit. Scores range from 0 to 3. Higher scores indicate worse health utilization outcomes.
60 days

Collaborators and Investigators

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

Sponsor

Andrea Wallace

Collaborators

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

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 (Actual)

May 1, 2019

Primary Completion (Actual)

October 1, 2020

Study Completion (Actual)

October 1, 2020

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

November 11, 2020

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

November 13, 2020

First Posted (Actual)

November 16, 2020

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

November 16, 2020

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

November 13, 2020

Last Verified

November 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 00125877

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

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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