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An Electronic Decision Support Tool to Improve Outpatient Asthma Care

NCT01522144 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1030

Last updated 2012-01-31

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's ambulatory network uses an electronic health record (EHR) to document clinical information. Using the EHR, a clinical decision support tool will be designed to help the primary care physician's in caring for children with asthma. The goal will be to improve the primary care physician's use of the national Institutes of Health guidelines for the best care for asthma. To study this EHR decision support tool, it will be introduced into 5 practices while 5 other practices will have the existing asthma care information. It will be determined whether the physicians in the practices with the decision support tool are better at following the asthma guidelines. If the decision support tool works...then it will be offered to others to use with their EHR systems.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Computerized Decision support

Using a clustered randomized method, computerized decision support, embedded in the electronic health record, was offered to selected primary care practices and outcomes of asthma care were compared to those practices without the computerized decision support.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

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

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
1 Year
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-07-31
Primary Completion
2008-04-30
Completion
2008-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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