Trial reportHealth affairs (Project Hope)2024
The Camden Coalition Care Management Program Improved Intermediate Care Coordination: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Trial report in Health affairs (Project Hope), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
- The impact of the Indiana Complex Care Coordination Collaborative (IC4) on caregivers of children with complex medical conditions.BMC pediatrics · 2026Article
- Effect of Integrated Care Management Interventions on Post-hospitalization Utilization and Cost Outcomes for Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions.Journal of general internal medicine · 2026Article
- Effect of Integrated Care Management Interventions on Post-hospitalization Utilization and Cost Outcomes for Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions.Journal of general internal medicine · 2026Article
- Strengthening Emergency Department Health Initiatives Through Partnership With Health Departments and Community Organizations.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2026Article
- A Novel Intervention for Medicaid Beneficiaries with Complex Needs.Journal of general internal medicine · 2026Article
- Supporting Emergency Department Patients Experiencing Homelessness.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2026Article
- Collaboration strategies for bridging health, behavioral health, and social services in California's Medi-Cal Whole Person Care Pilot Program.Health services research · 2025Article
- Impact of a multi-payer full-risk model on preserving primary care access for traditional medicare beneficiaries.Health affairs scholar · 2025Article
- Strengthening essential emergency departments: Transforming the safety net.Health affairs scholar · 2025Article
- Empowering Victims of Lived Violence: Delaware's Hospital Violence Intervention Program (HVIP).Delaware journal of public health · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issuedErratum.2024
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7 authors.
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Abstract
When a randomized evaluation finds null results, it is important to understand why. We investigated two very different explanations for the finding from a randomized evaluation that the Camden Coalition's influential care management program-which targeted high-use, high-need patients in Camden, New Jersey-did not reduce hospital readmissions. One explanation is that the program's underlying theory of change was not right, meaning that intensive care coordination may have been insufficient to change patient outcomes. Another explanation is a failure of implementation, suggesting that the program may have failed to achieve its goals but could have succeeded if it had been implemented with greater fidelity. To test these two explanations, we linked study participants to Medicaid data, which covered 561 (70 percent) of the original 800 participants, to examine the program's impact on facilitating postdischarge ambulatory care-a key element of care coordination. We found that the program increased ambulatory visits by 15 percentage points after fourteen days postdischarge, driven by an increase in primary care; these effects persisted through 365 days. These results suggest that care coordination alone may be insufficient to reduce readmissions for patients with high rates of hospital admissions and medically and socially complex conditions.
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