Efficacy of the Pre-Admission Medication List (PAML) Builder Reminder Prompts

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

14122 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2008-04-30

Study Completion Date

2008-07-31

Brief Summary

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This project will study whether reminder prompts increase PAML Builder application feature utilization.

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Detailed Description

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This project will study whether reminder prompts increase Pre-Admission Medication List (PAML) Builder application feature utilization. PAML Builder is an application designed and maintained by Partners Information Systems that assists clinicians in medication reconciliation - a process important for patient safety and quality of care. We have determined that several potentially helpful features of the application are not being utilized as frequently as had been expected. These features include:

1. copying the pre-admission medication list (PAML) to the clipboard
2. viewing the detailed audit trail of all changes made to the PAML
3. sorting the list of medications obtained from other electronic sources by therapeutic class.

Reminder prompts (sometimes referred to as "Tip of the Day") have been employed to increase user awareness of underutilized application features. However, anecdotally some users find them unhelpful and potentially irritating. It is therefore important to determine whether reminder prompts accomplish the stated task of increasing application feature utilization. This project will compare PAML Builder application feature utilization before and after a pilot rollout of reminder prompts to determine whether they should be implemented permanently.

Conditions

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Utilization of Software Application Features

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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A

Receives the intervention (reminders displayed at the startup of the application) for both periods (period 1 and period 2) of the study.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Reminders

Intervention Type OTHER

Users of the PAML Builder application will receive reminders about three application features (copy/paste, audit trail, sort medications by class) at the startup of the application

B

Receives the intervention (reminders displayed at the application startup) only during the second period (period 2) of the study.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Reminders

Intervention Type OTHER

Users of the PAML Builder application will receive reminders about three application features (copy/paste, audit trail, sort medications by class) at the startup of the application

Interventions

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Reminders

Users of the PAML Builder application will receive reminders about three application features (copy/paste, audit trail, sort medications by class) at the startup of the application

Intervention Type OTHER