Improving Laboratory Follow-up by Delivering an Enhanced Medication List to Outpatient Physician Practices

NCT ID: NCT01208987

Last Updated: 2023-03-10

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 5256 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2007-09-28
• Study Completion Date: 2011-10-01

Brief Summary

The investigators plan to develop a process to create an Enhanced Medication List. The INPC (Indiana Network for Patient Care) already obtains histories of medications dispensed by pharmacies from several sources: pharmacy benefit managers, RxHub, insurance companies, Medicaid, SureScripts, Wishard Health Services. The investigators will collect all the medication data available through the INPC for an individual patient. The investigators will enhance this medication list by including medication categories, improving the structure and appearance, displaying results of relevant laboratory tests, and adding decision support reminders. The investigators will test the value of such an "Enhanced Medication List" by providing it to outpatient physician practices (through the DOCS4DOCS clinical messaging service, or as a fax), preferably on the day that the patient has an office visit with the physician. The investigators will determine whether this intervention improves patient care: whether there are higher rates of recommended laboratory follow-up monitoring as a result; whether there are lower rates of harmful drug-drug interactions. The investigators will also seek the opinions of physicians regarding the benefit of this intervention.

Conditions

Medication Histories in Outpatient Clinic Patients

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Intervention (with Medication History)

these patient visits generated a medication history

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Medication History was printed

Intervention Type: OTHER

Interventions

Medication History was printed

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• outpatient clinic patient visits

Exclusion Criteria

• Age 18 and under

• Minimum Eligible Age: 19 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Indiana University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

Regenstrief Institute

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

0710-59

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id