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Trial of a Best-Practice Alert in the Electronic Medical Record to Reduce Unnecessary Telemetry Monitoring

NCT02529176 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1021

Last updated 2019-11-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This is a randomized trial of a best-practice alert delivered via the electronic medical record (Apex) to physicians on the Medicine service at UCSF Medical Center over a six month period. The alert notifies physicians that their order for continuous cardiac monitoring (telemetry) for a given patient has exceeded the duration recommended by national guidelines and offers them the opportunity to discontinue monitoring if they feel it is clinically appropriate. Physicians will be randomized to either receive the BPA or not, with the anticipation that physicians in the intervention arm will discontinue unnecessary telemetry.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Best-practice alert

The best-practice alert notifies physicians that their patient's telemetry monitoring duration has exceeded national guidelines and gives the physician the option to: discontinue monitoring if they feel it is clinically appropriate, dismiss the alert, or re-alert in four hours.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Nader Najafi, MD · University of California, San Francisco

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
SINGLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-12-31
Primary Completion
2017-06-30
Completion
2017-06-30

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