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Testing Pediatric Rheumatology Diagnostic Decision Support in Clinical Use

NCT03501667 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 900

Last updated 2020-07-07

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Boston Children's Hospital resources include SimulConsult which is a decision support tool available for use of BCH provider through the library portal. It is offered along other resources on that webpage (UpToDate, Micromedex, and VisualDx). See addendum 1.

Recently, a pediatric rheumatology arm was added to the expertise of SimulConsult, guided by our co-PI, Dr. Robert Sundel. As this tool is being offered and used, the investigators would like to assess metric of performance of this tool in enhancing participant trainees knowledge about the work up of patients with a potential rheumatologic disorder. See also www.ncbi.nlm.gov/pubmed/27964737 The investigators are conducting a clinical research to assess improvement in the clinical performance of study participants evaluating patients with a potential rheumatologic disorder. The intervention involved in using a computerized decision support tool already available in the Boston Children's Hospital domain. The outcome will be comparing this performance to that of an attending physician as the gold standard. We will assess the study participants performance across two locations: Emergency Department and Rheumatology clinic. Care to patients remains unchanged, as the workup plan and care is provided by an attending across both domains.

The investigators main hypothesis is that using a decision support tool will result in a higher agreement rate between study participants' differential diagnosis and work up plan compared with the gold standard (attending differential diagnosis and research plan).

Conditions

  • Pediatric Rheumatological Condition (i.e., Arthritis, SLE, Kawasaki's Disaese)

Interventions

OTHER

Use of decision support tool

use of a decision support software during clinical assessment of a case

OTHER

Use of UpToDate

Control group, participants using current literature prior to assessing a clinical case. Allowing 10 minutes to read on a topic during clinical care is an active intervention in the study participant fund of knowledge.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Amir A Kimia, MD · Boston Children's Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
25 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-01-01
Primary Completion
2020-09-30
Completion
2020-12-31

Countries

  • United States

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