A Comprehensive Disease Management Program for Medically-Complex Substance Users
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Brief summary
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Disease management (DM) programs are being increasingly utilized by health plans to coordinate care, improve quality of care, and control costs in chronically ill individuals. DM programs for specific medical conditions, such as diabetes mellitus, congestive heart failure, and asthma, have demonstrated improvements in health outcomes and a number of studies have found economic benefits to these programs as well. There are fewer data evaluating multi-disease DM programs, and results have been mixed. Additionally, data on such programs specifically targeting substance-using populations are limited, although they are promising. Prior utilization and hospitalization data from Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Health Care, and Priority Partners Managed Care Organization (PPMCO) suggest that a substantial portion of high-utilizing, high-cost, medically complex patients have a substance use diagnosis. The investigators hypothesize that a comprehensive DM program for medically-complex substance users with a history of hospitalization, consisting of intensive nurse case management along with behavioral incentives to reinforce engagement in primary care, can decrease inpatient days and costs, as well as improve outcomes for substance use, depression, and physical and mental functioning. The investigators will compare the case management/behavioral incentives intervention to usual care among a group of medically-complex, substance-using, PPMCO enrollees. Usual care will include access to all existing Priority Partners care management programs, and usual The investigators believe that this research will make an important contribution to the development of models of chronic care that improve health and promote the best use of health care resources. Additionally, the investigators believe this project will promote the study and development of systems to improve the health of substance-using adults, an underserved and often marginalized group.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00865956
- Recruitment status
- Withdrawn
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- Not listed
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Feb 29, 2008
- Primary completion
- May 31, 2010
- Completion
- May 31, 2010
- Last update posted
- Oct 9, 2018
2008 – 2010
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Baltimore Medical Center | Baltimore | Maryland | 21202 | — |
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