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This is a prospective randomized wait-list control study to determine whether a stand-alone, co-located team of physician, mental health behaviorist, and care coordinators with decreased panel size (aka "intensive primary care") will reduce inpatient and emergency care utilization, inpatient costs of care, and improve patient activation and experience for medically and socially complex patients, compared to enhanced usual care at 6 and 12 months. Participants with multiple co-morbidities, and meet utilization criteria will have the opportunity to enroll; half the participants will start the intervention immediately, while half will continue enhanced usual care for 6 months before beginning the intervention.
The goal of this study is to conduct an evaluation of an "Ambulatory-ICU" model of primary care for "high utilizer" patients with medical, behavioral, and social complexity. A small proportion of patients use > 50 % of healthcare resources. It is currently unknown what interventions can help reduce inappropriate utilization due to lack of studies with rigorous study design, particularly in patients with high rates of homelessness, mental illness and substance use. The use of high-risk teams for select patients is a promising model of primary care that removes barriers to accessing usual care services by centralizing medical and behavioral clinical services, promotes ability to outreach beyond the clinic, and promote continuity of care and trust-building between patient and provider teams.
This study will test the hypothesis that a stand-alone clinic based intervention of a multidisciplinary, co-located physician, mental health behaviorist, nursing, pharmacist, and care coordinators with reduced panel size, and focus on patient capacity building and decreasing treatment burden will improve health outcomes at 6 and 12 months in a low-income high utilizer population with history of homelessness.
Enhanced usual care comprises of care delivered at Old Town Clinic (OTC) a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) that is modeled on the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model. Patients have a designated primary care physician and care team with access to chronic disease education, mental health, social work, and substance abuse programs through referral system. In addition, participants thought to have difficulty engaging in primary care have access to a Health Resilience Specialist, a community health worker intervention who conducts outreach and assists the patient in care navigation.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| SUMMIT intervention group | Experimental | This group will transfer primary care to the SUMMIT team, which consists of: 1 primary care provider, 1 clinical nurse, 1 team manager, 2 care-coordinators, 2 behavioralists, 1 clinical pharmacist. This interdisciplinary team will have reduced patient panel load and increased flexibility in time and scheduling in order to foster trust and continuity with the patient with a goal of decreasing treatment burden and increasing patient capacity. Specific activities that participants will receive include: 1) comprehensive initial intake and care plan development that incorporates patient goal setting; 2) flexible scheduling of appointments with outreach; 3) transitional care coordination; 4) built-in behavioural counselling and case management; 5) regular review of care plan by team members. |
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| enhanced usual care group | Active Comparator | This group will continue to receive primary care as usual for 6 months. This includes care provided by the patient's existing primary care provider, access to a clinic's Health Resilience outreach worker, mental health consultation, and other services provided by usual care. After 6 months, the baseline survey is administered and the participant will transfer care to the intervention as described above in the SUMMIT intervention group. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| SUMMIT intervention | Other | See description in experimental arm. |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Medical Hospitalizations | Administrative data will be used to determine hospital admissions | 6 months |
| Emergency Care visits | Administrative data will be used to determine Emergency Department (ED) visits over study period | 6 months |
| Primary care utilization | Clinic administrative data will be used to determine primary care visits over study period | 6 months |
| Patient Activation Measure (PAM) | Study survey of the PAM measure is a validated instrument to assess patient self-efficacy | 6 months |
| Patient Experience (ambulatory CAHPS) | Study survey of patient reported assessment of patient experience | 6 months |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Life Chaos | Study survey of a validated instrument to assess self-reported life chaos | 6 months |
| inpatient costs of care | claims data for patients will be used to determine costs of inpatient care |
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Inclusion Criteria:
• One or more of the following medical diagnoses:
And/OR:
• One or more of the following behavioral health diagnoses:
And/OR
• One or more of the following utilization patterns:
Exclusion Criteria:
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Brian Chan, MD | Assistant Professor | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Central City Concern | Portland | Oregon | 97209 | United States |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 30547847 | Background | Chan B, Edwards ST, Devoe M, Gil R, Mitchell M, Englander H, Nicolaidis C, Kansagara D, Saha S, Korthuis PT. The SUMMIT ambulatory-ICU primary care model for medically and socially complex patients in an urban federally qualified health center: study design and rationale. Addict Sci Clin Pract. 2018 Dec 14;13(1):27. doi: 10.1186/s13722-018-0128-y. | |
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upon request, the investigators can share de-identified, cleaned IPD for other researchers.
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This is a pragmatic "wait-list" control design. Participants will be consented and baseline survey administered after which patient will be randomized by computer generated algorithm into 2 arms: immediate or 6-month 'wait-list.' Immediate group will start intervention and be followed at 6 month intervals for 12 months. 'Wait-list' group will resume usual care for 6-months, after which they will cross-over to the intervention group for 12 months.
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Participants, care providers, investigator, and initial trained research assistant will be blinded initially during consent and baseline interview survey procedures. Once, randomization has occurred, the participants, care provider, investigator, and subsequent outcomes assessor will not be blinded.
| Enhanced usual care | Other | See description in active comparator arm. |
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| 6 months |
| inpatient average length of stay | Administrative data will be used to determine average length of stay each hospitalization | 6 months |
| Functional status using Short Form (SF)-12 survey | patient reported survey of functional status | 6 months |
| number of falls | Study survey with question asking how many falls over the last 6 months | 6 months |
| Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS) palliative measure | Study survey with one question from the ESAS questionaire | 6 months |
| Medical Hospitalizations | Administrative data will be used to determine hospital admissions | 12 months |
| Emergency Care visits | Administrative data will be used to determine ED visits | 12 months |
| Patient Activation Measure (PAM) | Study survey of the PAM measure is a validated instrument to assess patient self-efficacy | 12 months |
| Primary care utilization | Clinic administrative data will be used to determine primary care visits over study period | 12 months |
| Chan B, Hulen E, Edwards S, Mitchell M, Nicolaidis C, Saha S. "It's Like Riding Out the Chaos": Caring for Socially Complex Patients in an Ambulatory Intensive Care Unit (A-ICU). Ann Fam Med. 2019 Nov;17(6):495-501. doi: 10.1370/afm.2464. |
| 39243979 | Derived | Chan B, Cook R, Levander X, Wiest K, Hoffman K, Pertl K, Petluri R, McCarty D, Korthuis PT, Martin SA. Buprenorphine discontinuation in telehealth-only treatment for opioid use disorder: A longitudinal cohort analysis. J Subst Use Addict Treat. 2024 Dec;167:209511. doi: 10.1016/j.josat.2024.209511. Epub 2024 Sep 5. |
| 37948081 | Derived | Chan B, Edwards ST, Srikanth P, Mitchell M, Devoe M, Nicolaidis C, Kansagara D, Korthuis PT, Solotaroff R, Saha S. Ambulatory Intensive Care for Medically Complex Patients at a Health Care Clinic for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness: The SUMMIT Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Nov 1;6(11):e2342012. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.42012. |