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

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diabetes; Mental Health Disorder; Substance Abuse Disorder; Cardiovascular Disease

Treatments: Other: Co-developed IT intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02222909

CD-12-11-4948

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full description

see above

Enrollment: 6,767 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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6,767 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention CBOs

Experimental group

Description:

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.

Treatment:

Other: Co-developed IT intervention

Control CBOs

No Intervention group

Description:

Community Based Organizations that are being followed for data collection only for the period of one year