Trial reportSubstance abuse2015
A patient navigation intervention for drug-involved former prison inmates.
Trial report in Substance abuse, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 40 citations in OpenAlex.
- Community care navigation intervention for people who are at risk of unplanned hospital presentations.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Increasing access to family planning services among women receiving medications for opioid use disorder: A pilot randomized trial examining a peer-led navigation intervention.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2021Trial
- A randomized comparison of extended-release naltrexone with or without patient navigation vs enhanced treatment-as-usual for incarcerated adults with opioid use disorder.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2020Trial
- The Impact of a Culturally Adapted Patient Navigator-Led Telehealth Program for Displaced Afghans' Mental Health.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2026Article
- A protocol for a randomized comparison of extended-release versus sublingual buprenorphine among pre-trial detainees in jail.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2025Article
- Factors contributing to the expansion of medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) within the New Hampshire Department of Corrections (NHDOC).Health & justice · 2025Article
- mHealth Incentivized Adherence Plus Patient Navigation (MIAPP): protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial to improve linkage and retention on buprenorphine for hospitalized patients with methamphetamine use and opioid use disorder.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2025Article
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- The Community-Based Medication-First program for opioid use disorder: a hybrid implementation study protocol of a rapid access to buprenorphine program in Washington State.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2022Article
- Perspectives among women receiving medications for opioid use disorder: Implications for development of a peer navigation intervention to improve access to family planning services.Substance abuse · 2022Article
- Existential isolation and well-being in justice-involved populations.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Proceedings of the inaugural Canadian Healthcare Navigation Conference: a forum for sharing innovations and best practices in navigation services.BMC proceedings · 2021Article
- Healthcare beliefs, health information seeking, and healthcare setting preferences among women who inject drugs by community supervision status.Health & justice · 2021Article
- The association of criminal justice supervision setting with overdose mortality: a longitudinal cohort study.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2020Article
- Peer navigation for individuals with serious mental illness leaving jail: a pilot randomized trial study protocol.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2020Article
- Identifying the key features and outcomes of family navigation services for mental health and/or addictions concerns: a Delphi study.BMC health services research · 2019Article
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Decision Making And Care Navigation Upon Release From Prison: A Feasibility Study.Substance abuse and rehabilitation · 2019Article
- Primary care utilization in people who experience imprisonment in Ontario, Canada: a retrospective cohort study.BMC health services research · 2018Article
- The health care utilization of people in prison and after prison release: A population-based cohort study in Ontario, Canada.PloS one · 2018Article
- The Affordable Care Act, Insurance Coverage, and Health Care Utilization of Previously Incarcerated Young Men: 2008-2015.American journal of public health · 2017Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundFormer prison inmates experience high rates of hospitalizations and death during the transition from prison to the community, particularly from drug-related causes and early after release. The authors designed a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of patient navigation to reduce barriers to health care and hospitalizations for former prison inmates.
methodsForty former prison inmates with a history of drug involvement were recruited and randomized within 15 days after prison release. Participants were randomized to receive 3 months of patient navigation (PN) with facilitated enrollment into an indigent care discount program (intervention) or facilitated enrollment into an indigent care discount program alone (control). Structured interviews were conducted at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months. Outcomes were measured as a change in self-reported barriers to care and as the rate of health service use per 100 person-days.
resultsThe mean number of reported barriers to care was reduced at 3 and 6 months in both groups. At 6 months, the rate of emergency department/urgent care visits per 100 person-days since baseline was 1.1 among intervention participants and 0.5 among control participants (P = .04), whereas the rate of hospitalizations per 100 person-days was 0.2 in intervention participants and 0.6 in control participants (P = .04).
conclusionsRecruitment of former inmates into an RCT of patient navigation was highly feasible, but follow-up was limited by rearrests. Results suggest a significantly lower rate of hospitalizations among navigation participants, although the rate of emergency department/urgent care visits was not improved. Patient navigation is a promising, pragmatic intervention that may be effective at reducing high-cost health care utilization in former prison inmates.
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