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Feasibility of recruiting publicly insured children with special health care needs for a population‐based clinical study
Author(s) -
Yoo Michael,
Chi Donald L.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of public health dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.64
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1752-7325
pISSN - 0022-4006
DOI - 10.1111/jphd.12271
Subject(s) - medicaid , medicine , exact test , population , test (biology) , family medicine , health care , gerontology , environmental health , economics , economic growth , paleontology , biology
Objective Assess the feasibility of recruiting children with special health care needs (CSHCN) into a clinical study using Medicaid data. Methods We used the 3M Clinical Risk Grouping software to identify and classify Medicaid‐enrolled CSHCN ages 7‐17 years in Washington into one of three chronic condition severity groups: episodic, life‐long, or malignancy/catastrophic. We compared contact, recruitment, enrollment, and data completion proportions across severity groups using the Pearson chi‐square or Fisher's exact test. Results Of the 2,666 CSHSN in the Medicaid files, we contacted 922 and recruited 211 CSHCN (22.8 percent). One‐hundred‐thirteen made their study visit (53.6 percent) and 98 had complete data (86.7 percent). We contacted and recruited significantly larger proportions of CSHCN with malignancies/catastrophic conditions ( P < 0.01). Across severity groups, there were no differences in enrollment ( P = 0.27), but a smaller proportion of CSHCN with life‐long conditions had complete data ( P = 0.03). Conclusion It is feasible to recruit CSHCN from Medicaid files for clinical studies.