Increasing Infant Preventive Health Service Delivery in an Inner City Population
Summary
The study hypothesis is that case management using patient navigators ("promatoras" in the Latino community) will increase infant immunization rates and use of well child care in an inner city population of low socioeconomic status.
Description
The overall aim of the proposed project is to increase receipt of a broad array of childhood preventive health services in a population of disadvantaged inner city children. Specific hypotheses concerning risk factors for infant under-immunization and lack of receipt of well child care will be tested. This study will first examine these risk factors in a defined population of inner city children, using a historical cohort. Finally, through the use of a randomized controlled trial in a prospective birth cohort, it will test an intervention, based partly on the evidence gathered from the initial study phases, to increase immunization rates and well child care delivery in those children most at risk for “falling through the cracks.” These studies will be conducted in the Denver Health community health network, the largest integrated community health care system in the United States.
Information gathered via rigorous exploration of risk factors for inadequate preventive service receipt in inner city children is especially important at present, because despite rising immunization rates around the country, it is clear that “pockets of need” remain in many urban locations. Children in these pockets of need, in addition to being under-immunized, also are at higher risk for lack of other preventive services, and suffer from higher rates of iron deficiency anemia and lead poisoning. The knowledge gained from both the descriptive and interventional parts of the study will provide crucial information for physicians who care for these children, health care systems that serve them, and policy makers responsible for promoting effective tools and funding their implementation. The information gained herein will also provide important methodological insight for generalists who wish to conduct interventional studies in large urban populations, by further refining existing methods used in design and implementation of large cohort studies in disadvantaged children.
Although this project will be conducted among a population of disadvantaged inner city children, many of the findings from these studies will likely be applicable in health care systems that serve other socioeconomic groups. All primary care physicians who care for children face the challenge of trying to boost childhood immunization rates over 90%, and to increase the delivery of a full spectrum of preventive health services to children. The investigators hope that the evidence from this project will inform and shape both the clinical practice of individual health care providers and health care systems charged with providing preventive health care to children in a wide variety of settings.
Study Design
Allocation: Randomized, Control: Active Control, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention
Conditions
Healthy
Intervention
Reminder-Recall-Outreach, Case Management, Patient Navigator
Location
Denver Health Medical Center
Denver
Colorado
United States
80204
Status
Recruiting
Source
University of Colorado, Denver
Results (where available)
Links
- Source: http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00221507
- Information obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov on July 15, 2010
Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Management Service Organizations
Voluntarily-formed groups of healthcare professionals who join for common management services and other benefits such as collective bargaining agreements with reimbursement agents. The physical assets of a practice are controlled by the MSO which also provides billing, collections, and similar services. The practitioner retains control of patient records and management of patient care.
Case Management
A traditional term for all the activities which a physician or other health care professional normally performs to insure the coordination of the medical services required by a patient. It also, when used in connection with managed care, covers all the activities of evaluating the patient, planning treatment, referral, and follow-up so that care is continuous and comprehensive and payment for the care is obtained. (From Slee & Slee, Health Care Terms, 2nd ed)
Product Line Management
Management control systems for structuring health care delivery strategies around case types, as in DRGs, or specific clinical services.
Intraoperative Awareness
Occurence of a patient becoming conscious during a procedure performed under GENERAL ANESTHESIA and subsequently having recall of these events. (From Anesthesiology 2006, 104(4): 847-64.)
Postoperative Care
The period of care beginning when the patient is removed from surgery and aimed at meeting the patient's psychological and physical needs directly after surgery. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)
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