Incorporating PRO Data Into RA Clinical Encounters Using Health IT

Summary

The goal of this pragmatic clinical trial is to learn if a new health IT tool that was rolled out at UCSF Health rheumatology clinics (the RA PRO dashboard) can help improve the lives of individuals with rheumatoid arthritis. The RA PRO dashboard displays important outcomes for individuals with rheumatoid arthritis, including disease activity, physical functioning, and pain scores in an easy-to-read, digital interface that can be displayed on the computer screen during a clinical visit. These outcomes are tracked over time, so patients and clinicians can see changes across multiple time points. Additional features of the dashboard include displaying medication use over time and recent lab test results.

The main questions the study aims to answer are: Does displaying the dashboard during a clinical visit ...

1. reduce decisional conflict when making a medication choice?
2. improve self-efficacy in symptom management?
3. change beliefs about medications?
4. improve medication adherence?
5. improve RA outcomes such as disease activity or physical functioning?

Researchers will compare these outcomes in the patients of clinicians who have access to the RA PRO dashboard to those who do not to see if these outcomes change over time.

Clinicians with access to the dashboard may choose to share it from the computer screen with patients during the clinic visit. Participants will be asked to complete surveys as part of their routine clinic visits.

Conditions

• Rheumatoid Arthritis

Interventions

OTHER

RA PRO Dashboard

The RA PRO Dashboard was developed by UCSF rheumatology investigators in collaboration with the UCSF SOMTech Unit. Briefly, investigators used a human-centered design approach to build a new, EHR-integrated, patient-facing visualization tool that displays RA outcome data to RA patients during clinical visits. The RA PRO dashboard was tailored for deployment at the UCSF Health's rheumatology clinic using a EHR side-car application (Salesforce). The dashboard was launched into the production environment in August 2021. With the launch, investigators integrated quality improvement, user monitoring, and lean management techniques to promote use of RA outcomes and the dashboard (for clinicians granted access) during clinical visits.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

  collaborator FED

• University of California, San Francisco

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Gabriela Schmajuk, MD · University of California, San Francisco

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Model

SEQUENTIAL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2020-02-26

Primary Completion

2023-08-21

Completion

2023-08-21

Countries

• United States

Study Locations