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Electronic Health Record (EHR) Decision Support to Improve Outpatient Asthma Care

NCT00918944 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 12

Last updated 2011-12-23

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

To determine whether an innovative clinical decision support system embedded in an existing electronic health record (EHR) will improve provider adherence to the existing National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) guidelines.

12 primary care pediatric practices at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia(both urban and suburban sites) will be randomized to receive either a passive EHR (control sites) or an interactive decision support system (intervention sites).

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Control

The asthma disease management toolkit available to all practices in the EHR will consist of four elements: * A data entry tool for capturing asthma control data * Standardized documentation templates to facilitate severity classification * Order sets to facilitate ordering controller medications * An asthma care plan that can be supplied to families

OTHER

Intervention

Three alerts and two reminders will be programmed: * Alert providers to enter asthma severity classification if none is on file * Alert providers to prescribe controller medications for persistent asthma if none on file * Alert providers to complete an asthma care plan if none on file * Remind providers to review the asthma care plan if it is already on file by providing a link to the form * Remind providers that educational content is available on-line by providing a web link

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Louis M Bell, MD · Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-01-31
Primary Completion
2009-07-31
Completion
2009-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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