Implementation of COVID-19 Testing Strategies in Community Health Centers

Mass General Brigham

Status: Completed

Conditions: Covid19

Treatments: Other: Usual care control; Other: RADx CHCs testing intervention strategy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT04802187

3P50CA244433-02S1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

2020P003743

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project is part of a competitive revision to accelerate COVID-19 testing in underserved populations. The overall aim is to implement strategies to expand COVID testing in hotspot communities in MA, through 6 community health center (CHC)-community partnerships. A base strategy will be implemented at all sites. A tailored strategy unique to local populations will be added and tested in a stepped wedge design.

Enrollment: 6 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participants are patients at the intervention or control CHCs or members of the local community. The participating sites constitute one group; a set of matched control CHCs that will conduct testing as usual constitute the second group.

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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6 participants in 2 patient groups

RADx CHCs testing intervention strategy

Other group

Description:

Six Massachusetts community health center partnerships implementing both a common testing expansion implementation strategy plus tailored strategies designed for community partner needs.

Treatment:

Other: RADx CHCs testing intervention strategy

Usual care control

Other group

Treatment:

Other: Usual care control