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A Reminder System for Paper-Based Asthma Guidelines in the Pediatric Emergency Department

NCT00699439 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1102

Last updated 2018-08-17

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Summary

The primary idea is that the use of a computerized reminder system to help with the guideline implementation will increase utilization and adherence of guideline-driven care, leading to improved patient outcomes. The hypothesis we aim to address is that an automatic, computerized reminder system for detecting asthma patients in the pediatric ED will increase paper-based guideline utilization compared to paper-based guideline without the system.

We aim to implement a real-time, computerized asthma detection system and integrate the system with the pediatric emergency department information system, and evaluate the effect of the asthma detection system on reminding clinicians to use the paper-based asthma guideline.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Paper-based asthma flow diagram

If a patient is identified as having an asthma exacerbation by the Bayesian Network, the patients will be randomized to either arm A or B. If in A, the paper-based flow-chart will be printed out to place on the chart.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Judith W Dexheimer, MS · Vanderbilt University

  • Dominik Aronsky, MD, PhD · Vanderbilt University

  • Donald H Arnold, MD, MPH · Vanderbilt University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
2 Years
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-07-31
Primary Completion
2015-06-30
Completion
2015-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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