Saves the questions and what to expect into your notes, next to the visit they belong to.
Keep this study
Lead
Alameda County Medical Center
With
University of California, Berkeley
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Patients will be recruited by health coaches from the Highland Hospital Emergency Department. Eligible patients who agree to participate will be randomized to the control and experimental groups in a 2:1 ratio respectively because experimental group size is limited by health coach availability and greater loss-to-follow up is expected among the control group. Repeated measures analysis will be used to compare each outcome over the study period. In addition, subgroup analyses will be performed in order to stratify by baseline survey measures or amount of ED visits in the pre-observation period.
Age
18–any
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
Willing to work with a health coach
Plans to reside in Alameda County for the next year
Has a reliable phone number
Speaks English or Spanish
18 years of age or older
Meets at least one of the following three criteria: (1) Low medication adherence defined as a continuous medication gap of at least 1 month in the past year OR a new diagnosis of diabetes and/or hypertension; (2) No patient-identified primary care provider (PCP) or no visit to PCP in 1 year; (3) One or more visits to the ED in the last 6 months.
You may not be if
Life-expectancy less than 1 year
Poorly controlled psychiatric illness
Homeless
Active and frequent use of illicit substances
Currently incarcerated
Already enrolled in a program for patients with high rates of hospitalization and/or emergency department visits
Unable to consent due to an unstable condition or serious emotional or neurologic condition
Admitted or anticipated to be admitted to the hospital from the ED
Clareo Health | Health Coach Program to Improve Chronic Disease Outcomes Following an Emergency Department Visit
