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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Community
and Hospital Medical Record Integration
on Management of Behavioral Health
in the Emergency Department
Stephanie Ngo, MD
Mohammad Shahsahebi, MD, MBA
Sean Schreiber, MSED, LPC
Fred Johnson, MBA
Mina Silberberg, PhD
Abstract
This study evaluated the correlation of an emergency
department embedded care coordinator
with access to community and medical records in decreasing
hospital and emergency
department use in patients with behavioral health issues. This
retrospective cohort study
presents a 6-month pre-post analysis on patients seen by the
care coordinator (n=524). Looking
at all-cause healthcare utilization, care coordination was
associated with a significant median
decrease of one emergency department visit per patient (p G
0.001) and a decrease of 9.5 h in
emergency department length of stay per average visit per
patient (pG0.001). There was no
significant effect on the number of hospitalizations or hospital
length of stay. This intervention
demonstrated a correlation with reducing emergency department
use in patients with behavioral
health issues, but no correlation with reducing hospital
utilization. This under-researched
approach of integrating medical records at point-of-care could
serve as a model for better
emergency department management of behavioral health
patients.
Address correspondence to Mohammad Shahsahebi, MD, MBA,
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke
University, Durham, NC, USA. Phone: (919) 342-8845; Email:
[email protected]
Stephanie Ngo, MD, Department of Community and Family
Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
Fred Johnson, MBA, Department of Community and Family
Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
Mina Silberberg, PhD, Department of Community and Family
Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
Mohammad Shahsahebi, MD, MBA, Northern Piedmont
Community Care, Durham, NC, USA. Phone: (919) 342-8845;
Email: [email protected]
Fred Johnson, MBA, Northern Piedmont Community Care,
Durham, NC, USA.
Sean Schreiber, MSED, LPC, Alliance Behavioral Health,
Raleigh, NC, USA.
Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 2017. 651–
658. c)2017 National Council for Behavioral Health. DOI
10.1007/s11414-017-9574-7
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Introduction
Background
Patients with behavioral health issues often require more
resource-intensive care and are more
likely to be frequent users of health services.1–7 Brennan et al.
found that patients with at least one
primary psychiatric visit to the emergency department (ED)
were 4.6 times more likely than those
without a primary psychiatric visit to be classified as high
utilizers of health services overall, and
that on average, high utilizers with a primary psychiatric visit
had a significantly higher number of
ED visits than non-psychiatric high utilizers.7
Furthermore, Bboarding^ of patients with behavioral health
issues has become a serious problem
for patients who require psychiatric attention and has
overburdened EDs that already struggle with
overcrowding and lack of sufficient resources.1,8,9 Boarding is
often defined as the length of stay
(LOS) in the ED greater than 4h after medical clearance and is
normally due to awaiting placement
at another inpatient facility.8,9 EDs are poorly equipped at
providing mental healthcare, and
boarding leads to substandard quality of patient care, poor
patient and provider satisfaction, and
lost hospital revenue and negatively impacts patient throughput.
1,3,8–10.
Patients with behavioral health issues have been
disproportionately affected by boarding due to a
national decrease in psychiatric inpatient facilities and lack of
appropriate increase in community-
based resources.1–3,10 Patients with behavioral health needs
are a vulnerable population who can be
particularly difficult to serve because of their complex needs
and scarcity in resources for their
care. The quality of care that these patients receive can
potentially improve with better integration
and coordination among medical services, mental health care,
and community resources. Case
management is defined as Ba collaborative process of
assessment, planning, facilitation, care
coordination, evaluation, and advocacy for options and services
to meet an individual’s and
family’s comprehensive health needs through communication
and available resources to promote
quality, cost-effective outcomes,^ and can be utilized in
initiatives focused on coordinating patient
care.8,11 In studies targeting high utilizer populations, the
results have been mixed but generally,
case management and care coordination has been found to
reduce hospital costs, decrease
healthcare utilization, and improve clinical (e.g., alcohol and
substance use, psychiatric symptoms,
mortality) and social outcomes (e.g., homelessness, insurance
status, social security support).12–14
With the development of new information technology systems,
there is the potential for case
managers and care coordinators to have simultaneous access to
a broader range of patient data than
has been available in the past and, therefore, be more effective.
This specific intervention of
information sharing has not been studied in depth. Though
integrated access may not be a novel
intervention, many barriers such as privacy concerns and EHR
fragmentation have prevented
broadscale implementation, thus limiting the quantification of
its impact. This paper reports an
evaluation of an intervention that allowed a case manager to
have integrated access to multiple
community stakeholder records to improve care coordination
and to alleviate the psychiatric
boarding burden and frequent ED use often associated in
patients with behavioral health issues.
The goal of this study was to evaluate whether an embedded ED
care coordinator with access to
multiple electronic health records (EHRs) is effective in
reducing hospital and ED utilization in
patients with behavioral health issues using a pre-post analysis.
Methods
Study Setting and Program Description
Duke University Hospital (DUH), a part of the Duke University
Health System (DUHS), is a
teaching hospital and tertiary and quaternary care hospital with
938 beds. It is the designated Level
1 Trauma Center for Durham County. The ED has
approximately 65,000 visits per year.
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October 2018
DUHS is the predominant medical provider in Durham County
and the sole provider of
emergency and inpatient care. Like many insurance entities,
North Carolina Medicaid separates
behavioral healthcare from traditional medical care. As a result,
few patients receive the totality of
their care within one health system or EHR.
A collaboration was developed in Durham, NC, between
Alliance Behavioral Healthcare (ABH),
a community mental health managed care organization; North
Piedmont Community Care (NPCC),
an organization owned and operated by Duke Health System and
one of Community Care North
Carolina (CCNC) networks (the North Carolina Medicaid
medical home and population health
management organization); and DUHS. A care coordinator,
funded and employed collectively by
these entities was embedded into the DUH ED from February
2013 to April 2014. Of note, the
position was filled again in July 2014 and the care coordinator
continues to provide services at the
DUH ED. The program has since been expanded to include
pediatric ED patients. Patients with
behavioral health needs who visited the DUH ED and were
referred to the ED psychiatry team
received services from the care coordinator as part of the
standard of care.
At the highest level, patients who receive services from a
provider within the Alliance network
range from 3years old and up are either Medicaid eligible or are
considered indigent, defined by
Alliance as at or below 300% of the federal poverty level. In
order to receive services beyond an
assessment or psychological testing, during the time of the
study, they must have a behavioral
health diagnosis under the International Classification of
Diseases, 9th Revision (ICD-9) of 219 to
317. If a consumer was previously served in the care
coordination program, in addition to a
behavioral health diagnosis, including intellectual and
developmental disabilities, they would need
to have a history of crisis service utilization, a recent history of
incarceration, and a recent history
of inpatient psychiatric services, pregnancy, and substance
abusing or enrolled in the Innovations
waiver, meaning the individual’s functioning made them
eligible for an institutional level of care in
an intermediate care facility.
The care coordinator had traditional case management duties,
such as making community and
medical referrals, assisting with inpatient or community
placement, and coordinating appropriate
follow up. However, this position was unique in that the care
coordinator was able to enhance
patient care by accessing the separate EHRs and claims data of
ABH, CCNC, and DUHS in order
to give ED providers information regarding patients’ outpatient
providers, current medications,
community resources, etc. This can be especially important for
patients who are in active
psychiatric crisis and are unable or unwilling to provide a
history. Therefore, the care coordinator
was poised to Bconnect the dots^ when providers were
unfamiliar with the care a patient was
receiving in the community.
The goal of the care coordinator was to act as a bridge between
the different community and
medical entities. By having an understanding of these different
entities with access to their separate
records, the care coordinator aimed to improve the ED team’s
ability to provide care and determine
the most proper patient disposition, which would then translate
to increased quality of care and
efficiency in serving patients.
The data accessible on the DUH medical record systems
included medical notes, labs, imaging,
and other studies done in encounters with DUHS. Many patients
saw psychiatric providers outside
of DUHS, so these records were not available to the ED
psychiatric providers. The additional data
that the care coordinator had access to included these patient
assessments, outside hospital
discharge summaries, and other psychological testing.
Study Design
This study was a retrospective, observational cohort study using
patients as their own controls
and was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review
Board of Duke University. Approval
was also granted by Alliance Behavioral Healthcare.
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Data were obtained via Duke Enterprise Data Unified Content
Explorer (DEDUCE), a web-
based research query tool and centralized database that collects
encounter-level data from hospitals
and clinics within DUHS. We did not obtain data from the
outside community and hospital
providers or claim data from payers for the purposes of this
evaluation.
DUHS, ABH, and NPCC worked collaboratively on this study.
Population
The cohort consisted of patients whom the care coordinator
served as part of the Duke ED
psychiatry team (n=527). Since data collection predated the
evaluation, there were some
discrepancies in how the data were recorded, although these
were small. Patients who could not
be identified in the electronic medical record system via chart
review using the recorded patient
information were removed from the analysis (n=3) giving a final
sample size of n=524.
Measures and Outcomes
Integration was achieved by giving the care coordinator access
to both EHRs. Unfortunately, the
two EHR systems were not allowed to directly interface or share
information. Currently, providers
in the DUH ED do not have access to the majority of these
patients behavioral health history at the
point-of-care. Though release of information is typically
requested, the pace and 24-h nature of ED
care make it less likely that this information is available to the
ED teams in a timely manner. The
primary benefit of the current, siloed system is protection of
patient health data. This, however,
may negatively impact the ability to provide whole-person care.
DUH and Alliance employ similar strategies to ensure restricted
access. The Alliance consumer
management system uses a role-based security system where
users are granted access to parts of
the system based on their role within the agency. Care
coordinators typically have access to all
clinical data within the system, unless there is a reason to
restrict access to an identified consumer’s
record. The system has the ability to lockdown these records
and limit access to specific users.
While the care coordination staff have access to clinical data,
they are not permitted to see
consumer grievances or network provider details beyond
information need to facilitate referrals. In
the DUH EHR, a password re-entry and reason must be given
prior to accessing behavioral health
records. Both systems require users to change their password
every 90days and require all users to
undergo annual privacy training and client rights training.
Data from patients seen by the care coordinator from February
2013 to April 2014 were utilized,
with their first recorded encounter with the care coordinator as
the enrollment date. For each
patient, 6months of data before and after his/her enrollment date
were collected, giving a total time
frame for the data of August 2012 to October 2014.
Data collected included demographic information (age, gender,
race, and ethnicity); patient
comorbidity, as determined by the International Classification
of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9)
codes in all diagnostic fields (primary and secondary diagnoses)
in all ED and inpatient encounters in the
patient’s 12-month time frame; and encounter visit types
(hospitalizations, ED visits, and LOS).
The primary outcomes examined were number of ED visits,
number of inpatient hospitalizations,
ED length of stay (LOS) (measured in hours), and hospital LOS
(measured in days). Length of stay
was averaged as opposed to calculated as a sum total time due
to lack of LOS data for some
encounters.
Data Analysis
To assess the impact of care coordination on health utilization,
a pre-post analysis was performed
comparing outcome measures in the 6months before and after
the patients’ initial contact with the
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care coordinator (enrollment date). Wilcoxon signed-rank tests
between the pre and post data were
utilized to obtain the median difference for each metric,
reported with interquartile ranges (IQR)
due to lack of normality of data distribution. A probability p
value of G0.05 was considered
significant. Statistical analysis was conducted using R 3.2.0
software package.
Results
During February 2013 to April 2014, the care coordinator
served 527 patients, with a total of
524 patients included in the analysis. The cohort was
predominantly male (59%) and Black/African
American (62%), and had a mean age of 40.3years (Table 1).
The most prevalent psychiatric diagnoses among this cohort
were substance-related and
addictive disorders (58%); schizophrenia and other psychotic
disorders (48%); depressive disorders
(47%); disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders
(30%); and bipolar disorders (28%)
(Table 2).
During the 6-month pre period, there was a range of 0–116 ED
visits and 0–37 hospitalizations.
The 6-month pre-intervention medians were one
hospitalization/patient, 0.5days for LOS of
hospitalization/patient, two ED visits/patient, and 15.4h for
LOS of ED visit/patient. Analysis of
the 6-month pre-post all-cause healthcare utilization data
demonstrated a strongly significant
median decrease of one ED visit per patient (pG0.001) and a
decrease of 9.5 h in the emergency
department length of stay per average visit per patient
(pG0.001) (Table 3). There was no
significant change in either median difference of
hospitalizations (median = 0, p=0.17) or median
difference in hospital LOS (median = 0, p=0.21) (Table 3).
Discussion
The goal of this study was to assess the impact of a care
coordinator with increased EHR access
on ED and hospital utilization. We found that there was an
associated reduction in ED utilization
with a decrease in both number of ED visits and ED LOS. This
is consistent with the majority of
studies that have looked at a variety of case management
intervention strategies in reducing ED
Table 1
Demographic characteristics (n=524)
Number (%)
Age, mean 40.3±13.9
Male gender 309 (5%)
Race
Black/African American 325 (62%)
White/Caucasian 152 (29%)
Multiracial 15 (2.9%)
American Indian 4 (0.8%)
Asian 2 (0.4%)
Other/unknown/declined 26 (5%)
Ethnic group
Hispanic/Latino 19 (4%)
Other/Unknown/Declined 505 (96%)
Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding
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use.12,13 The decrease in ED LOS may be related to the ability
of the care team to more effectively
and efficiently plan disposition and follow up for patients not
requiring immediate psychiatric
hospitalization. Fewer ED visits could be a result of better
coordination of behavioral health care
leading to less frequent crises. Reductions in ED visits and LOS
for this population can translate to
the ED’s ability to decrease overcrowding and increase patient
throughput, which can ultimately
lead to a reduction in lost revenue, reduction in wait times, and
improved delivery of care. This
intervention may assist in alleviating the psychiatric boarding
burden that many EDs face.
However, it appears that the impact on healthcare utilization
was limited to ED use. We found no
significant change in all-cause hospital utilization in either
difference in pre-post hospitalizations
and hospital LOS. Fewer studies have looked at hospital
utilization as an outcome than ED, but
most, like ours, report a lack of significant change.12,13 These
results looked at all-cause
hospitalizations, not only psychiatric-related hospitalizations.
Because the care coordinator targeted
patients specifically when they interacted with the psychiatry
ED team and had minimal interaction
with medically related ED visits, the lack of change in
hospitalizations may be due to patients that
Table 2
Psychiatric comorbidities
Percentage (n)
Substance-related and addictive disorders 58% (294)
Schizophrenia and psychotic disorders 48% (243)
Depressive disorders 47% (239)
Disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders 30% (151)
Bipolar disorders 28% (143)
Trauma- and stressor-related disorders 22% (110)
Neurodevelopmental disorders 21% (109)
Anxiety disorders 19% (98)
Personality disorders 19% (96)
Neurocognitive disorders 10% (53)
Obsessive compulsive disorders 2% (11)
Somatic symptom and related disorders 1% (6)
Psychiatric comorbidities were determined using the psychiatric
diagnosis classifications and associated ICD-9
codes in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders (DSM) IV.17
Table 3
Median pre-post difference in health utilization
Pre Post Difference p value
Number of hospitalizations 1 (0 to 2) 1 (0 to 2) 0 (−1 to 1) 0.17
Hospital LOS (days) 0.5 (−1.7 to 2.7) 0.3 (−1.2 to 1.8) 0 (−1.5
to 1.5) 0.21
Number of ED visits 2 (1 to 3) 1 (0 to 2) −1 (−2 to 0) G0.001*
ED LOS (hours) 15.4 (2.3 to 28.5) 2.6 (−10.6 to 15.8) −9.3
(−36.5 to 17.9) G0.001*
BPre^ indicates the 6-month period before enrollment date;
BPost^ indicates the 6-month period after
enrollment date. Results are from paired t tests (pre-post)
*Indicates statistical significance with p value G0.05
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were medically complex. This would be consistent with Billings
et al.’s finding that high utilizer
patients have high rates of complex medical comorbidities.15
In addition, since hospitalization is more of a reflection on the
severity of illness in a patient than
is ED use, it is possible that care coordination is more
successful at redirecting ED utilization to
community and ambulatory resources and less effective at
improving overall patient burden of
disease. A more intensive, community-based intervention may
be more effective at impacting
burden of disease since this intervention is limited to only
providing services when the patient
interacted with the ED.
Limitations
There were several limitations to this study.
The program evaluation began after the intervention had taken
place and the intervention was
implemented as a new standard of care; therefore, patients were
not separated into control or
intervention groups as part of the intervention design. Because
patients were used as their own
controls, it is pertinent that we consider regression to the mean
as a possible explanation for our
results. Regression to the mean is a commonly described
phenomenon whereby extreme cases
represent a brief period of atypical activity that then eventually
normalize. Studies looking at
patterns of ED use have observed regression to the mean,
making it more difficult to be certain of
the validity of positive results.16 Our results would therefore be
strengthened with the inclusion of a
comparable control group, most likely via propensity score
methodologies, since it would be
ethically difficult to consent patients into intervention and
control groups while in active
psychiatric crisis and since the care coordinator has been
established as a standard of care.
This study was restricted in looking at provider-centered
outcomes as opposed to patient-
centered outcomes, such as quality of life, patient satisfaction,
and severity of disease. Decreasing
rates of ED use and hospitalizations imply improved health;
however, it would be valuable to
include direct patient-centered metrics in future analyses.
Also, as a retrospective cohort study, we were unable to control
for other potential confounders
and we cannot definitively relate the introduction of the care
coordinator with increased EHR
access to the reduction in ED utilization.
Future Directions
It was initially intended to incorporate community and
ambulatory level data into this study;
however, the ability to share data was delayed due to legal
review and contractual obligation. Due
to this limitation, we were unable to include community and
ambulatory level data as possible
metrics of continuity of care and impact on ambulatory service
utilization. Such results would be
useful in gaining better insights into the scope of effect of the
intervention. Further research is also
required to better understand the lack of impact on
hospitalizations.
A qualitative component of the study would also provide a
deeper understanding on the impact
of the addition of the care coordinator on the ED psychiatric
team. Outcomes to consider in a
qualitative study include impact on ED workflow, provider
satisfaction, and patient satisfaction.
Improved integration of the community and hospital EHRs may
include getting more ED providers
access to the Alliance EHR. Ultimately, the idea solution would
be the bilateral exchange of information
seamless between the two EHR platforms so that providers can
efficiently work in one space.
Implications for Behavioral Health
Health care services have traditionally been siloed, requiring
tremendous effort in order to share
information or work collaboratively. Institutional barriers
perpetuate this and can be a significant
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detriment to patient care. The care coordinator intervention
sought to cross these boundaries and
work towards a more cohesive model of care for entities that
collectively serve the same group of
patients. Patients with behavioral health issues are a
particularly vulnerable group that may struggle
more in navigating a fragmented system, leading them to rely on
acute settings such as the
emergency department when they fall into the gaps. The
implementation of integrated services may
prove beneficial in closing these gaps and improving the quality
of care these patients receive. This
study suggests that there is potential for such interventions,
particularly for reducing ED utilization.
More research and implementation of innovative integration
strategies are needed to better assess
this potential.
Compliance with Ethical Standards
Conflict of Interest The authors declare that they have no
conflict of interest.
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  • 1. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Community and Hospital Medical Record Integration on Management of Behavioral Health in the Emergency Department Stephanie Ngo, MD Mohammad Shahsahebi, MD, MBA Sean Schreiber, MSED, LPC Fred Johnson, MBA Mina Silberberg, PhD Abstract This study evaluated the correlation of an emergency department embedded care coordinator with access to community and medical records in decreasing hospital and emergency department use in patients with behavioral health issues. This retrospective cohort study presents a 6-month pre-post analysis on patients seen by the care coordinator (n=524). Looking at all-cause healthcare utilization, care coordination was associated with a significant median decrease of one emergency department visit per patient (p G 0.001) and a decrease of 9.5 h in emergency department length of stay per average visit per patient (pG0.001). There was no significant effect on the number of hospitalizations or hospital length of stay. This intervention demonstrated a correlation with reducing emergency department use in patients with behavioral health issues, but no correlation with reducing hospital
  • 2. utilization. This under-researched approach of integrating medical records at point-of-care could serve as a model for better emergency department management of behavioral health patients. Address correspondence to Mohammad Shahsahebi, MD, MBA, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. Phone: (919) 342-8845; Email: [email protected] Stephanie Ngo, MD, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. Fred Johnson, MBA, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. Mina Silberberg, PhD, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. Mohammad Shahsahebi, MD, MBA, Northern Piedmont Community Care, Durham, NC, USA. Phone: (919) 342-8845; Email: [email protected] Fred Johnson, MBA, Northern Piedmont Community Care, Durham, NC, USA. Sean Schreiber, MSED, LPC, Alliance Behavioral Health, Raleigh, NC, USA. Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 2017. 651– 658. c)2017 National Council for Behavioral Health. DOI 10.1007/s11414-017-9574-7 Evaluating the effectiveness of community NGO ET AL. 651 Introduction Background
  • 3. Patients with behavioral health issues often require more resource-intensive care and are more likely to be frequent users of health services.1–7 Brennan et al. found that patients with at least one primary psychiatric visit to the emergency department (ED) were 4.6 times more likely than those without a primary psychiatric visit to be classified as high utilizers of health services overall, and that on average, high utilizers with a primary psychiatric visit had a significantly higher number of ED visits than non-psychiatric high utilizers.7 Furthermore, Bboarding^ of patients with behavioral health issues has become a serious problem for patients who require psychiatric attention and has overburdened EDs that already struggle with overcrowding and lack of sufficient resources.1,8,9 Boarding is often defined as the length of stay (LOS) in the ED greater than 4h after medical clearance and is normally due to awaiting placement at another inpatient facility.8,9 EDs are poorly equipped at providing mental healthcare, and boarding leads to substandard quality of patient care, poor patient and provider satisfaction, and lost hospital revenue and negatively impacts patient throughput. 1,3,8–10. Patients with behavioral health issues have been disproportionately affected by boarding due to a national decrease in psychiatric inpatient facilities and lack of appropriate increase in community- based resources.1–3,10 Patients with behavioral health needs are a vulnerable population who can be particularly difficult to serve because of their complex needs and scarcity in resources for their
  • 4. care. The quality of care that these patients receive can potentially improve with better integration and coordination among medical services, mental health care, and community resources. Case management is defined as Ba collaborative process of assessment, planning, facilitation, care coordination, evaluation, and advocacy for options and services to meet an individual’s and family’s comprehensive health needs through communication and available resources to promote quality, cost-effective outcomes,^ and can be utilized in initiatives focused on coordinating patient care.8,11 In studies targeting high utilizer populations, the results have been mixed but generally, case management and care coordination has been found to reduce hospital costs, decrease healthcare utilization, and improve clinical (e.g., alcohol and substance use, psychiatric symptoms, mortality) and social outcomes (e.g., homelessness, insurance status, social security support).12–14 With the development of new information technology systems, there is the potential for case managers and care coordinators to have simultaneous access to a broader range of patient data than has been available in the past and, therefore, be more effective. This specific intervention of information sharing has not been studied in depth. Though integrated access may not be a novel intervention, many barriers such as privacy concerns and EHR fragmentation have prevented broadscale implementation, thus limiting the quantification of its impact. This paper reports an evaluation of an intervention that allowed a case manager to have integrated access to multiple community stakeholder records to improve care coordination
  • 5. and to alleviate the psychiatric boarding burden and frequent ED use often associated in patients with behavioral health issues. The goal of this study was to evaluate whether an embedded ED care coordinator with access to multiple electronic health records (EHRs) is effective in reducing hospital and ED utilization in patients with behavioral health issues using a pre-post analysis. Methods Study Setting and Program Description Duke University Hospital (DUH), a part of the Duke University Health System (DUHS), is a teaching hospital and tertiary and quaternary care hospital with 938 beds. It is the designated Level 1 Trauma Center for Durham County. The ED has approximately 65,000 visits per year. 652 The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research 45:4 October 2018 DUHS is the predominant medical provider in Durham County and the sole provider of emergency and inpatient care. Like many insurance entities, North Carolina Medicaid separates behavioral healthcare from traditional medical care. As a result, few patients receive the totality of their care within one health system or EHR. A collaboration was developed in Durham, NC, between Alliance Behavioral Healthcare (ABH), a community mental health managed care organization; North
  • 6. Piedmont Community Care (NPCC), an organization owned and operated by Duke Health System and one of Community Care North Carolina (CCNC) networks (the North Carolina Medicaid medical home and population health management organization); and DUHS. A care coordinator, funded and employed collectively by these entities was embedded into the DUH ED from February 2013 to April 2014. Of note, the position was filled again in July 2014 and the care coordinator continues to provide services at the DUH ED. The program has since been expanded to include pediatric ED patients. Patients with behavioral health needs who visited the DUH ED and were referred to the ED psychiatry team received services from the care coordinator as part of the standard of care. At the highest level, patients who receive services from a provider within the Alliance network range from 3years old and up are either Medicaid eligible or are considered indigent, defined by Alliance as at or below 300% of the federal poverty level. In order to receive services beyond an assessment or psychological testing, during the time of the study, they must have a behavioral health diagnosis under the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision (ICD-9) of 219 to 317. If a consumer was previously served in the care coordination program, in addition to a behavioral health diagnosis, including intellectual and developmental disabilities, they would need to have a history of crisis service utilization, a recent history of incarceration, and a recent history of inpatient psychiatric services, pregnancy, and substance abusing or enrolled in the Innovations
  • 7. waiver, meaning the individual’s functioning made them eligible for an institutional level of care in an intermediate care facility. The care coordinator had traditional case management duties, such as making community and medical referrals, assisting with inpatient or community placement, and coordinating appropriate follow up. However, this position was unique in that the care coordinator was able to enhance patient care by accessing the separate EHRs and claims data of ABH, CCNC, and DUHS in order to give ED providers information regarding patients’ outpatient providers, current medications, community resources, etc. This can be especially important for patients who are in active psychiatric crisis and are unable or unwilling to provide a history. Therefore, the care coordinator was poised to Bconnect the dots^ when providers were unfamiliar with the care a patient was receiving in the community. The goal of the care coordinator was to act as a bridge between the different community and medical entities. By having an understanding of these different entities with access to their separate records, the care coordinator aimed to improve the ED team’s ability to provide care and determine the most proper patient disposition, which would then translate to increased quality of care and efficiency in serving patients. The data accessible on the DUH medical record systems included medical notes, labs, imaging, and other studies done in encounters with DUHS. Many patients saw psychiatric providers outside
  • 8. of DUHS, so these records were not available to the ED psychiatric providers. The additional data that the care coordinator had access to included these patient assessments, outside hospital discharge summaries, and other psychological testing. Study Design This study was a retrospective, observational cohort study using patients as their own controls and was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board of Duke University. Approval was also granted by Alliance Behavioral Healthcare. Evaluating the effectiveness of community NGO ET AL. 653 Data were obtained via Duke Enterprise Data Unified Content Explorer (DEDUCE), a web- based research query tool and centralized database that collects encounter-level data from hospitals and clinics within DUHS. We did not obtain data from the outside community and hospital providers or claim data from payers for the purposes of this evaluation. DUHS, ABH, and NPCC worked collaboratively on this study. Population The cohort consisted of patients whom the care coordinator served as part of the Duke ED psychiatry team (n=527). Since data collection predated the evaluation, there were some discrepancies in how the data were recorded, although these
  • 9. were small. Patients who could not be identified in the electronic medical record system via chart review using the recorded patient information were removed from the analysis (n=3) giving a final sample size of n=524. Measures and Outcomes Integration was achieved by giving the care coordinator access to both EHRs. Unfortunately, the two EHR systems were not allowed to directly interface or share information. Currently, providers in the DUH ED do not have access to the majority of these patients behavioral health history at the point-of-care. Though release of information is typically requested, the pace and 24-h nature of ED care make it less likely that this information is available to the ED teams in a timely manner. The primary benefit of the current, siloed system is protection of patient health data. This, however, may negatively impact the ability to provide whole-person care. DUH and Alliance employ similar strategies to ensure restricted access. The Alliance consumer management system uses a role-based security system where users are granted access to parts of the system based on their role within the agency. Care coordinators typically have access to all clinical data within the system, unless there is a reason to restrict access to an identified consumer’s record. The system has the ability to lockdown these records and limit access to specific users. While the care coordination staff have access to clinical data, they are not permitted to see consumer grievances or network provider details beyond information need to facilitate referrals. In
  • 10. the DUH EHR, a password re-entry and reason must be given prior to accessing behavioral health records. Both systems require users to change their password every 90days and require all users to undergo annual privacy training and client rights training. Data from patients seen by the care coordinator from February 2013 to April 2014 were utilized, with their first recorded encounter with the care coordinator as the enrollment date. For each patient, 6months of data before and after his/her enrollment date were collected, giving a total time frame for the data of August 2012 to October 2014. Data collected included demographic information (age, gender, race, and ethnicity); patient comorbidity, as determined by the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) codes in all diagnostic fields (primary and secondary diagnoses) in all ED and inpatient encounters in the patient’s 12-month time frame; and encounter visit types (hospitalizations, ED visits, and LOS). The primary outcomes examined were number of ED visits, number of inpatient hospitalizations, ED length of stay (LOS) (measured in hours), and hospital LOS (measured in days). Length of stay was averaged as opposed to calculated as a sum total time due to lack of LOS data for some encounters. Data Analysis To assess the impact of care coordination on health utilization, a pre-post analysis was performed comparing outcome measures in the 6months before and after
  • 11. the patients’ initial contact with the 654 The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research 45:4 October 2018 care coordinator (enrollment date). Wilcoxon signed-rank tests between the pre and post data were utilized to obtain the median difference for each metric, reported with interquartile ranges (IQR) due to lack of normality of data distribution. A probability p value of G0.05 was considered significant. Statistical analysis was conducted using R 3.2.0 software package. Results During February 2013 to April 2014, the care coordinator served 527 patients, with a total of 524 patients included in the analysis. The cohort was predominantly male (59%) and Black/African American (62%), and had a mean age of 40.3years (Table 1). The most prevalent psychiatric diagnoses among this cohort were substance-related and addictive disorders (58%); schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders (48%); depressive disorders (47%); disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders (30%); and bipolar disorders (28%) (Table 2). During the 6-month pre period, there was a range of 0–116 ED visits and 0–37 hospitalizations. The 6-month pre-intervention medians were one hospitalization/patient, 0.5days for LOS of
  • 12. hospitalization/patient, two ED visits/patient, and 15.4h for LOS of ED visit/patient. Analysis of the 6-month pre-post all-cause healthcare utilization data demonstrated a strongly significant median decrease of one ED visit per patient (pG0.001) and a decrease of 9.5 h in the emergency department length of stay per average visit per patient (pG0.001) (Table 3). There was no significant change in either median difference of hospitalizations (median = 0, p=0.17) or median difference in hospital LOS (median = 0, p=0.21) (Table 3). Discussion The goal of this study was to assess the impact of a care coordinator with increased EHR access on ED and hospital utilization. We found that there was an associated reduction in ED utilization with a decrease in both number of ED visits and ED LOS. This is consistent with the majority of studies that have looked at a variety of case management intervention strategies in reducing ED Table 1 Demographic characteristics (n=524) Number (%) Age, mean 40.3±13.9 Male gender 309 (5%) Race Black/African American 325 (62%) White/Caucasian 152 (29%) Multiracial 15 (2.9%) American Indian 4 (0.8%)
  • 13. Asian 2 (0.4%) Other/unknown/declined 26 (5%) Ethnic group Hispanic/Latino 19 (4%) Other/Unknown/Declined 505 (96%) Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding Evaluating the effectiveness of community NGO ET AL. 655 use.12,13 The decrease in ED LOS may be related to the ability of the care team to more effectively and efficiently plan disposition and follow up for patients not requiring immediate psychiatric hospitalization. Fewer ED visits could be a result of better coordination of behavioral health care leading to less frequent crises. Reductions in ED visits and LOS for this population can translate to the ED’s ability to decrease overcrowding and increase patient throughput, which can ultimately lead to a reduction in lost revenue, reduction in wait times, and improved delivery of care. This intervention may assist in alleviating the psychiatric boarding burden that many EDs face. However, it appears that the impact on healthcare utilization was limited to ED use. We found no significant change in all-cause hospital utilization in either difference in pre-post hospitalizations and hospital LOS. Fewer studies have looked at hospital utilization as an outcome than ED, but most, like ours, report a lack of significant change.12,13 These results looked at all-cause
  • 14. hospitalizations, not only psychiatric-related hospitalizations. Because the care coordinator targeted patients specifically when they interacted with the psychiatry ED team and had minimal interaction with medically related ED visits, the lack of change in hospitalizations may be due to patients that Table 2 Psychiatric comorbidities Percentage (n) Substance-related and addictive disorders 58% (294) Schizophrenia and psychotic disorders 48% (243) Depressive disorders 47% (239) Disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders 30% (151) Bipolar disorders 28% (143) Trauma- and stressor-related disorders 22% (110) Neurodevelopmental disorders 21% (109) Anxiety disorders 19% (98) Personality disorders 19% (96) Neurocognitive disorders 10% (53) Obsessive compulsive disorders 2% (11) Somatic symptom and related disorders 1% (6) Psychiatric comorbidities were determined using the psychiatric diagnosis classifications and associated ICD-9 codes in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) IV.17 Table 3 Median pre-post difference in health utilization Pre Post Difference p value Number of hospitalizations 1 (0 to 2) 1 (0 to 2) 0 (−1 to 1) 0.17
  • 15. Hospital LOS (days) 0.5 (−1.7 to 2.7) 0.3 (−1.2 to 1.8) 0 (−1.5 to 1.5) 0.21 Number of ED visits 2 (1 to 3) 1 (0 to 2) −1 (−2 to 0) G0.001* ED LOS (hours) 15.4 (2.3 to 28.5) 2.6 (−10.6 to 15.8) −9.3 (−36.5 to 17.9) G0.001* BPre^ indicates the 6-month period before enrollment date; BPost^ indicates the 6-month period after enrollment date. Results are from paired t tests (pre-post) *Indicates statistical significance with p value G0.05 656 The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research 45:4 October 2018 were medically complex. This would be consistent with Billings et al.’s finding that high utilizer patients have high rates of complex medical comorbidities.15 In addition, since hospitalization is more of a reflection on the severity of illness in a patient than is ED use, it is possible that care coordination is more successful at redirecting ED utilization to community and ambulatory resources and less effective at improving overall patient burden of disease. A more intensive, community-based intervention may be more effective at impacting burden of disease since this intervention is limited to only providing services when the patient interacted with the ED. Limitations There were several limitations to this study. The program evaluation began after the intervention had taken
  • 16. place and the intervention was implemented as a new standard of care; therefore, patients were not separated into control or intervention groups as part of the intervention design. Because patients were used as their own controls, it is pertinent that we consider regression to the mean as a possible explanation for our results. Regression to the mean is a commonly described phenomenon whereby extreme cases represent a brief period of atypical activity that then eventually normalize. Studies looking at patterns of ED use have observed regression to the mean, making it more difficult to be certain of the validity of positive results.16 Our results would therefore be strengthened with the inclusion of a comparable control group, most likely via propensity score methodologies, since it would be ethically difficult to consent patients into intervention and control groups while in active psychiatric crisis and since the care coordinator has been established as a standard of care. This study was restricted in looking at provider-centered outcomes as opposed to patient- centered outcomes, such as quality of life, patient satisfaction, and severity of disease. Decreasing rates of ED use and hospitalizations imply improved health; however, it would be valuable to include direct patient-centered metrics in future analyses. Also, as a retrospective cohort study, we were unable to control for other potential confounders and we cannot definitively relate the introduction of the care coordinator with increased EHR access to the reduction in ED utilization.
  • 17. Future Directions It was initially intended to incorporate community and ambulatory level data into this study; however, the ability to share data was delayed due to legal review and contractual obligation. Due to this limitation, we were unable to include community and ambulatory level data as possible metrics of continuity of care and impact on ambulatory service utilization. Such results would be useful in gaining better insights into the scope of effect of the intervention. Further research is also required to better understand the lack of impact on hospitalizations. A qualitative component of the study would also provide a deeper understanding on the impact of the addition of the care coordinator on the ED psychiatric team. Outcomes to consider in a qualitative study include impact on ED workflow, provider satisfaction, and patient satisfaction. Improved integration of the community and hospital EHRs may include getting more ED providers access to the Alliance EHR. Ultimately, the idea solution would be the bilateral exchange of information seamless between the two EHR platforms so that providers can efficiently work in one space. Implications for Behavioral Health Health care services have traditionally been siloed, requiring tremendous effort in order to share information or work collaboratively. Institutional barriers perpetuate this and can be a significant
  • 18. Evaluating the effectiveness of community NGO ET AL. 657 detriment to patient care. The care coordinator intervention sought to cross these boundaries and work towards a more cohesive model of care for entities that collectively serve the same group of patients. Patients with behavioral health issues are a particularly vulnerable group that may struggle more in navigating a fragmented system, leading them to rely on acute settings such as the emergency department when they fall into the gaps. The implementation of integrated services may prove beneficial in closing these gaps and improving the quality of care these patients receive. This study suggests that there is potential for such interventions, particularly for reducing ED utilization. More research and implementation of innovative integration strategies are needed to better assess this potential. Compliance with Ethical Standards Conflict of Interest The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. References 1. Nolan JM, Fee C, Cooper BA, et al. Psychiatric boarding incidence, duration, and associated factors in United States emergency departments. Journal of Emergency Nursing. 2015;41(1):57–64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jen.2014.05.004.
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