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Behavioral Economics Applications to Geriatrics Leveraging EHRs R33 Trial

NCT04289753 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 37134

Last updated 2023-08-16

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Summary

Investigators will evaluate clinical decision support nudges informed by behavioral science and directed at primary care clinicians. These will be used to reduce commonly misused, and potentially harmful, diagnostic and therapeutic actions that occur in the care of older adults (e.g. overtreatment of type 2 diabetes, misuse of PSA screening, misuse of urine testing in women with nonspecific symptoms or no symptoms.

Conditions

  • Prostate Specific Antigen Screening
  • Asymptomatic Bacteriuria
  • Type 2 Diabetes

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

EHR clinical decision support nudges

Clinical decision support nudges delivered within the EHR when conditions meet alert triggering criteria.

BEHAVIORAL

Brief clinician education

Clinicians will be invited to view brief education material.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Stephen D. Persell, MD, MPH · Northwestern University

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
2020-09-01
Primary Completion
2022-03-01
Completion
2022-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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