Integrating Targeted MedlinePlus Health Prescriptions Into Clinic Practice Workflow

Summary

The specific aim of this proposed project is to implement a standard process for integrating MedlinePlus health information prescriptions into the clinic workflow.

Hypothesis 1: Individuals in the intervention group who receive tailored email health information with provider selected MedlinePlus links and added commentary for patient specific conditions will be more likely to seek information / use MedlinePlus compared with individuals in the control group.

Hypothesis 2: Individuals in the intervention group who receive tailored email health information with provider selected MedlinePlus links and added commentary for patient specific conditions will be more satisfied with the information received compared with individuals in the control group.

Conditions

• Allergic Rhinitis
• Asthma
• Back Pain
• Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy
• Bursitis
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Diabetes Mellitus
• Esophageal Reflux
• HIV Infections
• Hyperlipidemia
• Hypertension
• Insomnia
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Obesity
• Osteoporosis (Senile)
• Shoulder Pain
• Sinusitis
• Symptomatic Menopause
• Urinary Incontinence
• Urinary Tract Infection
• Vaginitis

Interventions

OTHER

Health Information Prescription

The patient education materials will consist of approximately 21 topics representing some of the most common conditions seen at the Fairview Internal Medicine Clinic. Twenty-one e-mails, one per topic, will be created by Fairview physicians to be distributed to selected clinic patients. There will be a standard e-mail for each condition with a specific link to MedlinePlus. To create the targeted health information topic email, the physician will review the information available at MedlinePlus. The physician will then select several links of appropriate information and, using the template, will write a short annotation on each link.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Library of Medicine (NLM)

  collaborator NIH

• University of Missouri-Columbia

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Robert Hodge, MD · University of Missouri-Columbia

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2008-02-29

Primary Completion

2009-03-31

Completion

2009-09-30

Countries

• United States

Study Locations