Peer Support Workers to Improve Emergency Department Care Completion Among Patients Who Use Substances: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.
Peer support workers in emergency departments appear feasible for helping people with substance use complete their treatment rather than leaving early.
Assess feasibility of a randomized trial and the hypothesis that emergency department (ED) Peer support workers (Peers), who share personal lived experiences and resources, may decrease ED patients with substance use who leave before treatment completion (LBTC). A randomized trial is feasible.
What the study was
- Study design
- Randomized controlled trial
- Population
- Human participants
- Sample size
- 94
- Category
- Other
- Maturity
- Potentially Practice-Changing
- Journal
- Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open
Why it surfaced
Conservative v1.3 triage: Randomized controlled trial; score 9/10 from novelty 3, relevance 3, design quality 2, and population/unmet need 1.
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