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Feasibility of a Clinician Training Program to Improve Patient-provider Communication in the Presence of Health IT Systems in the Exam Room

NCT02915068 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 126

Last updated 2017-09-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The investigators propose to modify and expand the internationally-recognized evidence-based Physician Asthma Care Education (PACE) program to make it a suitable tool for training primary care clinicians on the effective use of EHRs at the point of care. The investigators will first develop the EHR edition of PACE (EHR-PACE) through literature and expert review of best practices for clinicians interacting with patients in the presence of computer systems in the exam room. They will then establish the feasibility and potential impact of EHR-PACE via a randomized design on 125 patients of 20 physicians who receive the intervention on the following outcomes via survey 3 and 6 months post-intervention: patient satisfaction with the physician's performance, asthma control, and asthma-related quality of life. Outcomes will be assessed on patients, but physicians will receive the intervention. Patients will not know which arm their doctor was randomized to. The pilot trial will compare two groups of primary care physicians who see patients with asthma in clinics equipped with certified EHRs. It is hypothesized that patients of physicians who receive EHR-PACE training will achieve better outcomes compared to physicians who do not receive EHR-PACE.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

EHR-Physician Asthma Care Education Program

participants will receive EHR-PACE, an interactive 1.5 hour training module that teaches clinicians best practices for communicating with patients in the presence of computer systems in the exam room (specifically EHRs).

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Minal R Patel, PhD, MPH · Assistant Professor

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-06-30
Primary Completion
2017-08-31
Completion
2017-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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