Evidence Based Decision Making: Integrating Clinical Prediction Rules

NCT ID: NCT01386047

Last Updated: 2012-10-04

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

168 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2010-08-31

Study Completion Date

2012-07-31

Brief Summary

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Clinical prediction rules (CPRs) are frontline decision aids that help physicians make evidence-based, cost-effective decisions that benefit their patients. The aims of this project are to incorporate two well validated CPRs (Streptococcal Pharyngitis Prediction Rule and the Pneumonia Clinical Prediction Rule) into an outpatient Electronic Medical Record System (EMR) and to perform a randomized controlled trial of the effectiveness of integrated CPRs impact on doctor's behaviors (e.g. test ordering and medication prescribing).

Detailed Description

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Clinical prediction rules (CPRs) are frontline decision aids that help physicians make evidence-based, cost-effective decisions that benefit their patients. CPRs are proven tools that translate evidence into practice, increase quality while reducing costs, and can be used by physicians in a wide variety of clinical settings, such as primary care offices, emergency rooms, and hospitals. While many CPRs have been developed and validated over the years, health care providers have yet to incorporate them into everyday care.

CPRs aid providers in assessing the impact of individual components of a patient's history, physical examination, and basic lab results to estimate probability of disease or potential response to a treatment. Prediction rules use data that is readily available at the time of a patient encounter and often reduce unnecessary treatments and diagnostic testing. CPRs differ from reminder systems or alerts in that CPRs pull in aspects of the history and physical exam and in an evidence based fashion estimate probabilities, prognosis, or make treatment recommendations.

The goal of this study is to utilize patient electronic health records to incorporate CPRs into the face-to-face patient encounter. We propose to select certain clinical situations where well-validated CPRs are available and likely to be needed on a frequent basis. We will randomly assign an integrated CPR versus usual care into the point of care and evaluate the impact of this integration on doctor behavior and evidence-based decision making. Mount Sinai's Division of General Internal Medicine (DGIM) has significant experience with all aspects of CPRs, including derivation, validation, implementation, and systematic review. Furthermore, the Division has developed an interactive web library of CPRs for clinical use that is one of the most widely sites of its kind. We propose to collaborate with Epic, one of the nation's largest and most respected electronic medical record (EMR) companies, to integrate validated CPRs into EMRs and assess the impact on provider behavior and patient care.

Conditions

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Strep Pharyngitis Pneumonia

Keywords

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Clinical Prediction Rules Electronic Health Records Walsh Clinical Prediction Rule Heckerling Clinical Prediction Rule

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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iCPR randomized providers

The physician population for the proposed study will comprise primary care providers (physicians, internal medicine residents, or licensed nurse practitioners; practicing in the outpatient primary care clinics at Mount Sinai Medical Center. The iCPR tool will automatically trigger for providers randomized into the iCPR intervention arm when they initiated an encounter for a patient that meets the criteria for possible evaluation of Strep Pharyngitis or Pneumonia.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Integrated Clinical Prediction Rule (iCPR)

Intervention Type OTHER

Integrated clinical prediction rule for Strep Pharyngitis based on Walsh clinical prediction rule (CPR) criteria and rule for Pneumonia based on Hecklering CPR criteria.

Control providers

The physician population for the proposed study will comprise primary care providers (physicians, internal medicine residents, or licensed nurse practitioners; practicing in the outpatient primary care clinics at Mount Sinai Medical Center. These providers will conduct visits for Strep Pharyngitis and Pneumonia in their manner (usual care).

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Integrated Clinical Prediction Rule (iCPR)

Integrated clinical prediction rule for Strep Pharyngitis based on Walsh clinical prediction rule (CPR) criteria and rule for Pneumonia based on Hecklering CPR criteria.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Providers who are part of Mount Sinai's Division of General Internal Medicine

Exclusion Criteria

* Not a provider at Mount Sinai's Division of General Internal Medicine
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

FED

Sponsor Role collaborator

Northwell Health

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Thomas McGinn

Chair and Professor for the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Thomas M McGinn, MD, MPH

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Northwell Health

Locations

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Mount Sinai School of Medicine

New York, New York, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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McGinn TG, McCullagh L, Kannry J, Knaus M, Sofianou A, Wisnivesky JP, Mann DM. Efficacy of an evidence-based clinical decision support in primary care practices: a randomized clinical trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2013 Sep 23;173(17):1584-91. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.8980.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 23896675 (View on PubMed)

Mann DM, Kannry JL, Edonyabo D, Li AC, Arciniega J, Stulman J, Romero L, Wisnivesky J, Adler R, McGinn TG. Rationale, design, and implementation protocol of an electronic health record integrated clinical prediction rule (iCPR) randomized trial in primary care. Implement Sci. 2011 Sep 19;6:109. doi: 10.1186/1748-5908-6-109.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 21929769 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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5R18HS018491

Identifier Type: AHRQ

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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GCO-09-0337

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id