Clinical Trial: Linking Emergency Department Patients to Assistance Programs Study
Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: RECRUITING
Condition: Social Determinants of Health
Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
Official Title: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Link Emergency Department Patients to Navigation Services for Enrollment in Public Benefits
Brief Summary:
The objective of this randomized controlled trial is to test the effect of screening patients in Penn Medicine Emergency Departments for eligibility of public benefits programs and using text messages post-discharge to connect patients to benefits enrollment specialists at Benefits Data Trust (BDT).Eligible patients will be randomly selected to receive text messages for two weeks after Emergency Department discharge with the phone number to speak with a benefits enrollment specialist at BDT.The number of calls to…
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