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NCT Number: NCT00634608

Integrating Targeted MedlinePlus Health Prescriptions Into Clinic Practice Workflow

The specific aim of this proposed project is to implement a standard process for integrating MedlinePlus health information prescriptions into the clinic workflow.

Hypothesis 1: Individuals in the intervention group who receive tailored email health information with provider selected MedlinePlus links and added commentary for patient specific conditions will be more likely to seek information / use MedlinePlus compared with individuals in the control group.

Hypothesis 2: Individuals in the intervention group who receive tailored email health information with provider selected MedlinePlus links and added commentary for patient specific conditions will be more satisfied with the information received compared with individuals in the control group.

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Key information

Conditions

Allergic Rhinitis Anxiety Anxiety Disorders Arthralgia Asthma Back Pain Behavior Behavioral Symptoms Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy Blood-Borne Infections Body Weight Bone Diseases Bone Diseases, Metabolic Bronchial Diseases Bursitis Cardiovascular Diseases Colonic Diseases Colonic Diseases, Functional Communicable Diseases Deglutition Disorders Depression Diabetes Mellitus Digestive System Diseases Dyslipidemias Dyssomnias Endocrine System Diseases Esophageal Diseases Esophageal Motility Disorders Esophageal Reflux Female Urogenital Diseases Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications Gastroesophageal Reflux Gastrointestinal Diseases Genital Diseases Genital Diseases, Female Genital Diseases, Male Glucose Metabolism Disorders HIV Infections Hyperlipidemia Hyperlipidemias Hypersensitivity Hypersensitivity, Immediate Hypertension Immune System Diseases Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes Infections Insomnia Intestinal Diseases Irritable Bowel Syndrome Joint Diseases Lentivirus Infections Lipid Metabolism Disorders Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Lung Diseases Lung Diseases, Obstructive Male Urogenital Diseases Mental Disorders Metabolic Diseases Musculoskeletal Diseases Nervous System Diseases Neurologic Manifestations Nose Diseases Nutrition Disorders Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases Obesity Osteoporosis Osteoporosis (Senile) Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases Overnutrition Overweight Pain Paranasal Sinus Diseases Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms Prostatic Diseases Prostatic Hyperplasia RNA Virus Infections Respiratory Hypersensitivity Respiratory Tract Diseases Respiratory Tract Infections Retroviridae Infections Rhinitis Rhinitis, Allergic Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral Shoulder Pain Signs and Symptoms Sinusitis Sleep Disorders, Intrinsic Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders Sleep Wake Disorders Symptomatic Menopause Urinary Incontinence Urinary Tract Infection Urinary Tract Infections Urination Disorders Urogenital Diseases Urologic Diseases Urological Manifestations Vaginal Diseases Vaginitis Vascular Diseases Virus Diseases

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

University of Missouri, Department of Internal Medicine

Columbia, Missouri, 65211, United States

About this study

Providing patient education in an outpatient practice can be challenging in part due to the variety of patient medical conditions and the quantity of materials needed. Increasingly, electronic resources such as those found on the internet have the potential to provide easily accessible needed information. However, clinicians do not have the time to assemble a list of websites for their patients and even if they did, the quality of information varies greatly and would require close screening. MedlinePlus is a free National Library of Medicine sponsored website that features health information on hundreds of conditions with all information carefully screened for quality standards by expert librarians. We will conduct a pilot study to seamlessly integrate provider-customized MedlinePlus health education prescriptions for specific conditions into the normal clinic workflow to motivate patients to access and expand their use of MedlinePlus to benefit their health. As HIV prevention/education is very important, we will include the HIV clinic as well as a general internal medicine clinic.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

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

Inclusion criteria

  • To be included in the study population, patients must also be seen by their physician for one of the 21 target health conditions (Allergic Rhinitis, Asthma, Back Pain, Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy, Bursitis, Depression/Anxiety, Diabetes Mellitus, Esophageal Reflux, HIV, Hyperlipidemia, Hypertension, Insomnia, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Obesity, Osteoporosis (senile), Shoulder Pain, Sinusitis, Symptomatic Menopause, Urinary Incontinence, Urinary Tract Infection, Vaginitis) and be willing to provide an email address.
  • Patients will be included only once.
  • All patients in the intervention and the control group will receive the survey.
  • All physicians and staff at the Fairview Clinic and HIV Clinic will be invited to complete the physician or staff survey.

Exclusion criteria

  • No email address

Treatment and study plan

health information prescription

Other

The patient education materials will consist of approximately 21 topics representing some of the most common conditions seen at the Fairview Internal Medicine Clinic. Twenty-one e-mails, one per topic, will be created by Fairview physicians to be distributed to selected clinic patients. There will be a standard e-mail for each condition with a specific link to MedlinePlus. To create the targeted health information topic email, the physician will review the information available at MedlinePlus. The physician will then select several links of appropriate information and, using the template, will write a short annotation on each link.

Primary outcomes

  1. health information experiences of the patient

    Time frame: approximately one week following clinic appointment

Secondary outcomes

  1. clinician feedback on the health information prescription process

    Time frame: midpoint and conclusion of the study

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Missouri-Columbia

Other

Collaborators

  • National Library of Medicine (NLM)

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2008
Primary completion
2009
Study completion
2009
First posted
Mar 13, 2008
Registry last updated
Sep 30, 2016

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