Do community health workers affect non-urgent, ambulatory healthcare utilization among low-income, minority patients with diabetes?
Community health workers (CHWs) can reduce emergent care among low-income, ethnic minority patients with type 2 diabetes. A secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial evaluated the effect of CHWs on non-urgent, ambulatory healthcare utilization. Within this trial, no effect on ambulatory ca...
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| author | Ryan G. Chiu Yinglin Xia Lisa K. Sharp Ben S. Gerber |
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| description | Community health workers (CHWs) can reduce emergent care among low-income, ethnic minority patients with type 2 diabetes. A secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial evaluated the effect of CHWs on non-urgent, ambulatory healthcare utilization. Within this trial, no effect on ambulatory care was found. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3e72d55d814e4bd283b9ce4e7124a0772022-12-22T03:45:11ZengElsevierJournal of Clinical & Translational Endocrinology2214-62372019-06-0116Do community health workers affect non-urgent, ambulatory healthcare utilization among low-income, minority patients with diabetes?Ryan G. Chiu0Yinglin Xia1Lisa K. Sharp2Ben S. Gerber3Department of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, 1747 W. Roosevelt Rd., Chicago, IL 60608, United StatesDepartment of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, 1747 W. Roosevelt Rd., Chicago, IL 60608, United StatesDepartment of Pharmacy Systems, Outcomes, and Policy, University of Illinois College of Pharmacy, 1747 W. Roosevelt Rd., Chicago, IL 60608, United StatesDepartment of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, 1747 W. Roosevelt Rd., Chicago, IL 60608, United States; Corresponding author at: Division of Academic Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Institute for Health Research and Policy M/C 275, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1747 West Roosevelt Road, Chicago, IL 60608, United States.Community health workers (CHWs) can reduce emergent care among low-income, ethnic minority patients with type 2 diabetes. A secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial evaluated the effect of CHWs on non-urgent, ambulatory healthcare utilization. Within this trial, no effect on ambulatory care was found.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214623718301571 |
| spellingShingle | Ryan G. Chiu Yinglin Xia Lisa K. Sharp Ben S. Gerber Do community health workers affect non-urgent, ambulatory healthcare utilization among low-income, minority patients with diabetes? Journal of Clinical & Translational Endocrinology |
| title | Do community health workers affect non-urgent, ambulatory healthcare utilization among low-income, minority patients with diabetes? |
| title_full | Do community health workers affect non-urgent, ambulatory healthcare utilization among low-income, minority patients with diabetes? |
| title_fullStr | Do community health workers affect non-urgent, ambulatory healthcare utilization among low-income, minority patients with diabetes? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Do community health workers affect non-urgent, ambulatory healthcare utilization among low-income, minority patients with diabetes? |
| title_short | Do community health workers affect non-urgent, ambulatory healthcare utilization among low-income, minority patients with diabetes? |
| title_sort | do community health workers affect non urgent ambulatory healthcare utilization among low income minority patients with diabetes |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214623718301571 |
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