Rapid Learning Healthcare System in Pediatric Surgery

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

133 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2016-07-01

Study Completion Date

2018-07-01

Brief Summary

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Engaging patients and families to take an active role in their healthcare leads to improved outcomes. Providing physicians and families with near real-time data on outcomes in children with similar medical conditions can allow families to form realistic expectations and take an active role in their child's health. It also provides physicians with near real-time feedback on patient-reported outcome measures to guide both conversations and recommendations for therapy at the point-of-care.

A rapid learning healthcare system (RLHS) is a system that merges clinical research and clinical care. It is designed to collect data during routine patient care and then utilize the data to rapidly generate evidence to improve patient care, provide information to patients and families, and track quality measures.

The investigators created a RLHS that integrates pre-specified data elements and validated surveys within the clinical workflow in order to operationalize automated research data collection and integrate predictive analytics into the electronic health record (EHR). Patients, caregivers, and physicians can access data in order to make informed, shared decisions about care and align expectations about outcomes.

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Detailed Description

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Functional disabilities such as functional constipation, and congenital anomalies such as anorectal malformations (ARM) and Hirschsprung disease (HD), are the leading indications for colon surgery in children. While these diseases have low mortality rates and surgical techniques can effectively restore anatomy, these patients have persistent and significant post-operative morbidity around fecal soiling and/or constipation. In addition to impairing growth and development, this affects all domains of health related quality of life (HRQoL). Patients, families, and healthcare providers of children with these diseases consistently report that bowel management strategies that prevent soiling comprise one of the most important areas for high quality outcomes research.

Engaging patients and families to take an active role in their healthcare leads to improved outcomes. Providing physicians and families with near real-time data on outcomes in children with similar medical conditions can allow families to form realistic expectations and take an active role in their child's health. It also provides physicians with near real-time feedback on patient-reported outcome measures to guide both conversations and recommendations for therapy at the point-of-care. A rapid learning healthcare system (RLHS) is a system that merges clinical research and clinical care. It is designed to collect data during routine patient care and then utilize the data to rapidly generate evidence to improve patient care, provide information to patients and families, and track quality measures.

The investigators created a RLHS that integrates pre-specified data elements and validated surveys within the clinical workflow in order to operationalize automated research data collection and integrate predictive analytics into the electronic health record (EHR). To date, we have over 800 patients enrolled in the colorectal RLHS. Patients, caregivers, and physicians can access data in order to make informed, shared decisions about care and align expectations about outcomes.

The primary and secondary objective of this trial are as follows:

Primary Objective: To assess the ability of a RLHS to improve healthcare satisfaction in pediatric patients with complex colorectal diseases.

Secondary Objective: To assess the ability of a RLHS to improve patient-centered outcomes in pediatric patients with complex colorectal diseases.To characterize the usability of the RLHS by patients and caregivers.

Conditions

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Colorectal Disorders

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

This trial is a single center randomized controlled trial to investigate the ability of the RLHS to improve patient-centered outcomes in pediatric patients with complex colorectal diseases. Patients and caregivers are randomized to either receive access to a website that displays the colorectal RLHS dashboard prior to standard consultation or to standard consultation alone.

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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RLHS dashboard

Patients randomized to RLHS website access are given instructions on how the RLHS dashboard works both by phone and by email and are given open access to the RLHS dashboard website immediately after enrollment and before meeting with the CCPR clinical team for their consultation. Each user has an access code, which allows them to track their access. They maintain access to the website throughout their care in the CCPR. Patients in the RLHS access group complete the System Usability Scale (SUS; a 10 item questionnaire to evaluate software, websites, and applications) after use of the RLHS at consultation. Those in the RLHS access group also complete a 7-item exit interview either via phone or on REDCap.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Rapid Learning Healthcare System

Intervention Type OTHER

The investigators created a Rapid Learning Healthcare System that integrates pre-specified data elements and validated surveys within the clinical workflow in order to operationalize automated research data collection and integrate predictive analytics into the electronic health record (EHR). Patients, caregivers, and physicians access data in order to make informed, shared decisions about care and align expectations about outcomes.

Standard consultation alone

Those not randomized to RLHS access undergo standard consultation only.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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