A Case Management Intervention to Prevent ER Visits in HIV-infected Persons

University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

Status: Terminated

Conditions: HIV

Treatments: Behavioral: Case manager phone call after an ER visit

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00187590

UMC200517

Details and patient eligibility

About

Case management has become an integral part of HIV care. There is little science however demonstrating its effectiveness. This is a randomized, controlled trial of a phone call intervention after an ER visit to see if this can reduce further ER visits, hospitalizations, deaths, and cost.

Full description

One year retrospective look at outcome measures followed by a one year trial of a phone call after each ER visit in half of the group. Outcomes measured are cost, ER visits, hospitalizations, death, length of stay. Adults only, English or Spanish, questionnaire on depression, appointments, drug use with referral to case management services, drug rehab services, or followup appointments. Time for intervention is recorded to estimate cost.

Enrollment: 612 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient in our clinic as of 4-1-04

Exclusion criteria

• <18 years old

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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612 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Phone call after an ER visit.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Case manager phone call after an ER visit

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No phone call after an ER visit.