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Child Health Improvement Through Computer Automation (CHICA) Highlighting Study

NCT01583101 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2237

Last updated 2017-05-15

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Summary

The investigators have developed a novel decision support system for implementing clinical guidelines in pediatric practice. CHICA (Child Health Improvement through Computer Automation) combines three elements: (1) pediatric guidelines encoded in Arden Syntax; (2) a dynamic, scannable paper user interface; and (3) an HL7-compliant interface to existing electronic medical record systems. The result is a system that both delivers "just-in-time" patient-relevant guidelines to physicians during the clinical encounter, and accurately captures structured data from all who interact with it. Preliminary work with CHICA has demonstrated the feasibility of using the system to implement and evaluate clinical guidelines.

However, analyses have shown that physicians ignore a fair number of prompts. The investigators would like to experiment with changes to the system to see if they can increase physicians' response rates. This could include highlighting prompts, reordering them, or flagging them in other ways. The main outcome of interest in the rate at which physicians answer prompts.

Conditions

  • Physician Behavior

Interventions

OTHER

Receiving Highlighted Prompts

Prompts received by physicians were highlighted.

OTHER

Receiving Non-highlighted Prompts

Prompts received by physicians were not highlighted.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Indiana University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Aaron E Carroll, MD, MS · Indiana University School of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-04-30
Primary Completion
2012-10-31
Completion
2012-10-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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