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A Virtual Navigation Intervention to Reduce Behavioral Health Admissions From Rural Emergency Departments (VIBRANT)
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Behavioral Health - Virtual Patient Navigation for Depression and 2 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 1,089 participants across 9 sites.
Detailed Summary
This research project is a pragmatic, randomized evaluation of a quality improvement initiative which seeks to evaluate the effects of standardizing the use of a BH-VPN program among patients with a telepsychiatric consult. The outcomes evaluation of this intervention has been designed to integrate with routine care and minimize frontline staff burden by deploying an evaluation in a real-world setting.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
Patients are identified by a clinician in the ED as needing psychiatric evaluation and a referral is made to a tele-psych provider for a virtual consult. Patients can be enrolled to the intervention arm based on a randomization scheme that randomly allocates days that navigators are available. The psychiatrist will make a recommendation to admit or discharge the patient. For patients that have a discharge recommendation on days that BH-VPN is available, patients will be offered the BH-VPN program. Enrolled patients are followed for up to 45 days. On days where the navigator is available, all patients who meet eligibility criteria will be considered exposed to the intervention.