An interventional study of Street medicine follow up in Homelessness, sponsored by Denver Health and Hospital Authority. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-01-28.
Sponsored by Denver Health and Hospital Authority · Not applicable, Interventional, and Health services research
In an effort to improve access to primary care at time of discharge, patients who are homeless will be given either enhanced follow up through a street medicine team or routine follow up in clinic.
Patients who experience homelessness frequently utilize the ED, but lack follow up primary care. In an effort to augment access to post-ED primary care, the investigators propose a quasi-experimental equivalent time sample study in which patients fitting certain diagnostic and inclusion criteria are allocated to either a) a referral to the Comprehensive Care Clinic at Denver Health, or b) a referral to Colorado Coalition for the Homeless (CCH) Stout Street medicine clinic. The street medicine clinic aims to lower barriers to access by locating patients on the street and providing primary care rather than asking patients to present to clinic. All patients will still receive the hospital appointment line number at time of discharge. 1 month and 3 months after index visit, the investigators will examine follow up rates at both clinics as well as secondary outcomes including ED visits, hospitalizations, and mortality through chart review of Denver Health and CCH electronic health records and CORHIO.
Denver Health and Hospital Authority is the lead sponsor of 84 studies on the registry; 4 are open to participants now.
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a diagnosis listed below that requires short-term follow up:
Exclusion Criteria:
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
COPD
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
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Patients will receive a referral to a rapid follow up clinic at time of discharge
Patients will receive a referral to street medicine at time of discharge
Behavioral: Street medicine follow up
This intervention will use electronic health record builds to automatically send a referral to a street medicine clinic, who will attempt to contact the patient within 2 weeks.
ED visits
Repeat visits to the ED
Time frame: 1 and 3 months
Inpatient hospitalizations
Inpatient hospitalizations at this same hospital
Time frame: 1 and 3 months
Mortality
Death
Time frame: 3 months
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Plan to share: No — At this time there is no plan to share IPD. Sharing of data will be considered on a case by case basis and only de-identified data will be shared.
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