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NCT Number: NCT00918944

Electronic Health Record (EHR) Decision Support to Improve Outpatient Asthma Care

To determine whether an innovative clinical decision support system embedded in an existing electronic health record (EHR) will improve provider adherence to the existing National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) guidelines.

12 primary care pediatric practices at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia(both urban and suburban sites) will be randomized to receive either a passive EHR (control sites) or an interactive decision support system (intervention sites).

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Key information

Conditions

Asthma Bronchial Diseases Hypersensitivity Hypersensitivity, Immediate Immune System Diseases Lung Diseases Lung Diseases, Obstructive Respiratory Hypersensitivity Respiratory Tract Diseases

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, United States

About this study

After receiving a standardized education module based on NAEPP guidelines, 12 primary care pediatric practices (both urban and suburban sites) will be randomized to receive either a passive EHR (control sites) or an interactive decision support system (intervention sites).

The primary outcome of interest will be the proportion of patients on appropriate asthma controller medication compared over time. Secondary outcomes include the proportion of asthma patients with: 1) an updated asthma action plan 2) documentation of spirometry performed (6 to 17 yrs) and 3) an updated problem list reflecting current asthma severity. After hours calls to providers and types of office visits related to asthma will be tracked. 4) In addition, measurement of asthma-related quality of life and missed school and work in a sample of 200 subjects from each group will be performed. Contextual factors at the clinic and patient level will be examined to assess their association with outcomes of interest.

If shown to be successful, this type of clinical decision support, embedded within the EHR, has the potential to be a powerful tool to improve the implementation of asthma guidelines and clinical practice guidelines for other conditions and illnesses in the primary setting.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Known patients with asthma

Exclusion criteria

  • None

Treatment and study plan

Control

Other

The asthma disease management toolkit available to all practices in the EHR will consist of four elements:

  • A data entry tool for capturing asthma control data
  • Standardized documentation templates to facilitate severity classification
  • Order sets to facilitate ordering controller medications
  • An asthma care plan that can be supplied to families

Intervention

Other

Three alerts and two reminders will be programmed:

  • Alert providers to enter asthma severity classification if none is on file
  • Alert providers to prescribe controller medications for persistent asthma if none on file
  • Alert providers to complete an asthma care plan if none on file
  • Remind providers to review the asthma care plan if it is already on file by providing a link to the form
  • Remind providers that educational content is available on-line by providing a web link

Primary outcomes

  1. The primary outcome measure is the proportion of persistent asthmatic patients with at least one prescription for a controller medication in each period. There are two periods of study: baseline and intervention.

    Time frame: 6 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Secondary outcomes include the proportion of persistent asthmatic patients with 1)an updated asthma action plan, 2)spirometry as needed 3)problem list with current asthma severity 4)asthma-related quality of life scores 5)absent school and work days.

    Time frame: 6 months

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Other

Collaborators

  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Registry information

Official study title

EHR Decision Support to Improve Outpatient Asthma Care

Important dates

Study start
2006
Primary completion
2009
Study completion
2009
First posted
Jun 11, 2009
Registry last updated
Dec 23, 2011

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