Novel
Practices that show potential to achieve desirable public health outcomes in a specific real-life setting and are in the process of generating evidence of effectiveness or may not yet be tested.

Implementing Expanded COVID-19 Testing in Massachusetts Community Health Centers through Community Partnerships: Protocol for an Interrupted Time Series and Stepped Wedge Study Design

Kruse, G.R., Pelton-Cairns, L., Taveras, E.M., Dargon-Hart, S., Gundersen, D.A., Lee, R.M., Bierer, B.E., Lawlor, E., La Rocque R.C.,, Marcus, J.L., Davies, M.E., Emmons, K.M., The RADx-MA Partnership

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Peer Review Study

Outreach/ Education/ Communications
Testing
Healthcare Access and Quality
Tools Included
Outside U.S.
ACCESS RESOURCE
Building

Infrastructure Support

In this community-engaged research study from Massachusetts, community health centers worked with communities partners to increase COVID-19 testing. CHCs strengthened these partnerships through local advisory groups and community outreach communications. This study compared testing among health centers that strengthened these relationships with health centers that acted as controls and functioned as they previously had.

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Outcomes of Interest

Partnership Building, Reduction of Health Disparities

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Implementation Period

2020-2022