Trial reportCommunity mental health journal2010
A randomized trial: are care navigators effective in connecting patients to primary care after psychiatric crisis?
Trial report in Community mental health journal, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
27 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Community care navigation intervention for people who are at risk of unplanned hospital presentations.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Communication pathways from the emergency department to community mental health services: A systematic review.International journal of mental health nursing · 2022Pooled it
- Community Health Workers as Healthcare Navigators in Primary Care Chronic Disease Management: a Systematic Review.Journal of general internal medicine · 2021Pooled it
- A pilot test of a peer navigator intervention for improving the health of individuals with serious mental illness.Community mental health journal · 2014Trial
- Finding a BETTER way: a qualitative study exploring the prevention practitioner intervention to improve chronic disease prevention and screening in family practice.BMC family practice · 2014Trial
- Integrated care programmes for severe mental illnesses and comorbid physical health disorders: the EU-MIND umbrella review to inform future actions in Europe.EClinicalMedicine · 2026Review
- The Potential Role of Peer Support Workers in General Practice: Perspectives of Consumers, Carers, Peer Support Workers and General Practice Staff.Administration and policy in mental health · 2026Article
- Co-Designing Lived Experience Guide Support for First Responder Mental Health: Defining the Role and Considerations for Implementation.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Article
- Are EDs the Only Option? Hospital-Based Alternatives to the Emergency Department for Mental Health Crises: A Scoping Review.International journal of mental health nursing · 2025Article
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- Expectations and needs of socially vulnerable patients for navigational support of primary health care services.BMC health services research · 2021Article
- Registry-Managed Care Coordination and Education for Patients With Co-occurring Diabetes and Serious Mental Illness.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2021Observational
- Surgical experience for patients with serious mental illness: a qualitative study.BMC psychiatry · 2021Article
- Peer-Based Education Regarding the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of psychosocial rehabilitation and mental health · 2020Article
- Peer navigation for individuals with serious mental illness leaving jail: a pilot randomized trial study protocol.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2020Article
- Bridge: Person-Centered Collaborative Care for Patients with Serious Mental Illness and Cancer.The oncologist · 2019Article
- Resilience in the midst of chaos: Socioecological model applied to women with depressive symptoms and socioeconomic disadvantage.Journal of community psychology · 2019Article
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- Utilization of a cardiometabolic health nurse - a novel strategy to manage comorbid physical and mental illness.Journal of comorbidity · 2014Article
- Peer navigators and integrated care to address ethnic health disparities of people with serious mental illness.Social work in public health · 2014Article
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Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
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Abstract
Persons with serious mental illnesses suffer excess medical morbidity compared to the general population. This RCT aimed to determine whether navigators are effective in helping patients connect to primary care after psychiatric crisis. Adults presenting for emergency care were randomly assigned to a navigator versus usual care. Navigators facilitated access to primary care. Outcomes were connection rates to medical care and the impact of health insurance, hospitalization and mental health care on primary care attendance. After 1 year, the intervention group was statistically more likely to access care, versus controls (62.4 vs. 37.6%, P < .001). Navigators were effective in helping patients connect to primary care after a psychiatric crisis. Improved access to primary care is important given the complex chronic health problems of this vulnerable cohort.
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