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Gestational Weight Gain and the Electronic Medical Record

NCT01987141 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 150

Last updated 2016-05-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Less than one third of pregnant women actually achieve the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) recommended weight gain. To date, there are no randomized controlled trials studying the use of the electronic medical record to alert providers to initiate the counseling of patients on the IOM gestational weight gain recommendations.

In the investigator's planned study intervention, using the EPIC EMR system, an electronic alert (Best Practice Advisory) will appear for providers at each prenatal care visit. This alert will remind providers to counsel patients on the recommendations for gestational weight gain. The control group will receive standard prenatal care, without electronic alerts generated regarding BMI and gestational weight gain.

The investigators hypothesize that a higher percentage of patients who receive the intervention will meet the IOM guidelines for weight gain.

Conditions

  • Pregnancy
  • Weight Gain

Interventions

OTHER

EMR Intervention

Electronic medical record flag/notification in the patient's chart

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Loyola University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-10-31
Primary Completion
2014-10-31
Completion
2016-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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