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Community Pharmacies as Social Determinant of Health Navigators

ConditionSocial Needs Status
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorState University of New York at Buffalo

About this trial

Type 1 hybrid effectiveness-implementation study using a quasi-experimental, difference-in-difference (DID) design to deliver a comprehensive social needs screening and navigation program by integrating Community Health Workers (CHWs) into community pharmacies across under-resourced areas in Western New York (WNY).

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Adult subjects ≥ 18 years

English speaking

Presenting to one of the participating pharmacies. For the pharmacies to be included, they must be enrolled within the Community Pharmacy Enhanced Services Network - NY (CPESN-NY) or associated with Tops Pharmacies. The pharmacies must have the ability to collaborate with Healthelink and referring partners (e.g., Wellconnected) and the staffing capacity to have a SDoH screening program with Community Health Worker Training. The pharmacies' physical address must be located within Erie County

Disqualifiers

Subjects ≤ 18 years

Trial design

Design model

Single group

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Social needs screenings and referrals

    Other intervention

    Community pharmacies will distribute social needs screening surveys to patients and refer them to local community based organizations based off of identified needs.

Treatment groups

1,600 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: Social needs screenings control groupNo intervention 0 interventions
Group B: Social needs screenings and referrals participantsOther 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Effectiveness Outcomes

Primary effectiveness outcomes in composite healthcare utilization including hospital admissions and ED visits at 12 months, and we hypothesize that utilization will be reduced in subjects who receive a pharmacy social needs intervention.

Time frame
12 months

Secondary outcomes

1

Cost Analysis

We will calculate interventions costs combined with cost savings from reduced utilization to calculate the net costs from a health system perspective.

Time frame
12 months

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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State University of New York at Buffalo

Lead sponsor

CPESN-NY Pharmacies

Collaborator

Tops Pharmacies

Collaborator

National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)

Collaborator

Source ClinicalTrials.gov
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