VA Integrated Medication Manager

NCT ID: NCT01787175

Last Updated: 2016-06-23

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

58 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2007-10-31

Study Completion Date

2011-03-31

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to advance the science of healthcare informatics and to improve medication management through the development of a new approach to the electronic medical record called the Integrated Medication Manager (IMM).

Detailed Description

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In an attempt to address problems patient non-compliance with quality goals barriers to access and integration of health information that impede achievement of treatment goals, the VA is developing a new approach to the electronic medical record. The VA is moving away from the paper-chart metaphor and towards an integrated representation of the patient's status and care process across time. One of the first steps in the development phase has been to explicitly relate patient conditions, therapies, and goals in the domain of pharmacotherapy. This is called Integrated Medication Management and draws on Hollnagel's Contextual Control Model. Providers will be able to plan care and create orders directly in the context of these explicit relationships. This application will be implemented nationwide through a web interface embedded within the existing Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS), the graphical user interface to VA Information Systems (VistA).

Aim 1: Identify cognitive components of providers' therapeutic decision making in the field.

Aim 2. Refine and evaluate the Integrated Medication Manager using simulation studies.

* Aim 2.a. Refine interfaces and logic of the Integrated Medication Manager.
* Aim 2.b. Compare the performance of the Integrated Medication Manager and usual CPRS.

All hypotheses (below) test the use of IMM versus usual electronic medical record (EMR).

* Speed of decision-making will be faster.
* Accuracy of data interpretation (clinical assessment) will be higher.
* Appropriateness of therapeutic plans will be higher.
* Efficiency of gathering information will be higher.
* Common ground measures will be higher.
* Appropriateness of therapeutic plans will be higher when relevant data is outside the usual time horizon.
* Appropriateness of therapeutic plans will be higher when complex associations among patient therapies and goals exist.
* Appropriateness of therapeutic plans will be no lower when relevant data is not captured by the displays of the IMM.
* Appropriateness of therapeutic plans will be higher when highly salient data is not germane to the most important problem.
* Appropriateness of therapeutic plans will be higher when cognitive load is high due to interruptions.

Conditions

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Electronic Health Records

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Integrated Medication Manager

Experienced providers that participated in the EHR simulations. Half of the providers were assigned to use the new Integrated Medication Manager (intervention) during the simulation. The other half were assigned the VA's CPRS to use (standard EHR). Providers were randomly assigned which system to use.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Integrated Medication Manager

Intervention Type OTHER

A theory based electronic health record. Half of the provider participants were assigned the IMM to use. The other half were assigned the VA's CPRS EHR to use for the simulation. Providers were randomly assigned to a EHR to use.

Standard EHR

Experienced providers that participated in the EHR simulations. Half of the providers were assigned to use the new Integrated Medication Manager (intervention) during the simulation. The other half were assigned the VA's CPRS to use (standard EHR). Providers were randomly assigned which system to use.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Integrated Medication Manager

A theory based electronic health record. Half of the provider participants were assigned the IMM to use. The other half were assigned the VA's CPRS EHR to use for the simulation. Providers were randomly assigned to a EHR to use.

Intervention Type OTHER

Other Intervention Names

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IMM

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Practiced in primary care for at least two years
* Third year residents with two years of residency in internal medicine or family practice
* Do not have to be currently practicing

Exclusion Criteria

* None
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

FED

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Utah

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Jonathan Nebeker, MD, MS

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Utah

Locations

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VA SLC Health Care System

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

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Other Identifiers

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5R18HS017186-03

Identifier Type: AHRQ

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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