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Improving Laboratory Monitoring in Community Practices: A Randomized Trial

NCT00789594 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2012-09-20

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The investigators propose a cluster-randomized controlled trial (RCT) of computerized point-of-care alerts in the EHR to prevent errors related to laboratory monitoring at the initiation and continuation of drug therapy and a results management system to prevent errors related to the delay in follow-up of abnormal laboratory testing.

Conditions

  • Healthy

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

laboratory monitoring alerts

laboratory monitoring alerts

BEHAVIORAL

Result management module

Result management module

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

    collaborator FED

  • VA Boston Healthcare System

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Steven R Simon, MD · VA Boston Healthcare System

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-04-30
Primary Completion
2012-06-30
Completion
2013-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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