Status:
COMPLETED
Patient Navigation in Primary Care and Access to Resources in the Community
Lead Sponsor:
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Collaborating Sponsors:
University of Ottawa
University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Conditions:
Health Care Inequity, Patient Navigation
Eligibility:
All Genders
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Some people living with health problems require extra support to properly manage their conditions, as family doctors are only able to spend limited time in the office with these patients. There are ma...
Detailed Description
The proposed project builds on work conducted between 2013 and today. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research's Community Based Primary Health Care Team Grant SPOR initiative funded a five-year pro...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- There are 3 levels of participation in this study: primary care practices, primary care providers, and primary care patients.
- 1\) Primary care practices
- Inclusion criteria:
- Any practice providing comprehensive primary care services (i.e. excludes practices that provide walk in services only), except for Community Health Centres. This includes Reformed Fee For Service (Family Health Groups, Comprehensive Care Model), Capitation based models (Family Health Networks, Family Health Organizations), and interprofessional models (Family Health Teams)
- Located in a neighbourhood of the Champlain (Ottawa area) or North East (Sudbury area) LHIN that has a francophone population of 20% of greater, as listed identified in the Ottawa Neighbourhood Study and in custom neighbourhoods created by the city of Greater Sudbury for city planning purposes, both linked to Statistics Canada's 2011 Population Census, respectively.
- Having at least one primary care provider agreeing to participate in the study
- Exclusion criteria:
- A Community Health Centre or clinics providing walk-in services only
- Practices that are under the traditional fee for service remuneration
- Located in a neighbourhood with less than 20% Francophone residents
- Primary care providers:
- Inclusion criteria:
- Work in a practice that meets the eligibility criteria participating practice will be invited to participate in the study.
- Is a Primary Health Care Provider: A health professional that may refer patients to CRs such as physicians, nurses, and social workers.
- Exclusion criteria:
- None
- Primary care patients:
- Inclusion criteria:
- Patient identifies a primary care provider participating in the study as their main primary care provider
- Has received a recommendation for a CR from their PHCP
- Is able to communicate in English or French, or is willing to be served via a cultural interpreter/translator, preferably a family member.
- Is able to provide consent for the study (18 years of age or older), or has parental/guardian proxy to provide consent (minor patients, patients with cognitive deficits)
- Exclusion criteria:
- Unable to provide consent and does not have a family member/guardian who can provide proxy consent
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
April 1 2018
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
May 1 2019
Estimated Enrollment :
326 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03451552
Start Date
April 1 2018
End Date
May 1 2019
Last Update
October 19 2020
Active Locations (1)
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Bruyere Research Institute
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 5C7