Non-Interruptive Alerts for Improving Use of Clinical Decision Rules

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

70 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-02-18

Study Completion Date

2022-11-04

Brief Summary

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This study is an extension of a planned quality improvement project that aims to promote standard of care by increasing the use of evidence-based clinical decision rules amongst emergency medicine providers in the University of Utah Emergency Department. Patient-specific information from the EHR will be used to recommend the use of relevant clinical decision rules to emergency medicine providers at the point-of-care. These recommendations will be in the form of non-interruptive alerts with one-click access to the suggested decision rules through the MDCalc Connect EHR add-on application. Specific aims of the study are to determine if 1) patient-specific non-interruptive alerts increase the use of clinical decision rules amongst emergency medicine providers and 2) an increase in the use of clinical decision rules affects provider ordering habits.

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Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Pulmonary Embolism Deep Vein Thrombosis Minor Head Injury Chest Pain Neck Trauma

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Cluster randomized controlled trial

Primary Study Purpose

DIAGNOSTIC

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Intervention Group

The intervention will contain two components: 1) a non-interruptive best practice advisory (BPA) in the Epic Storyboard and 2) a default suggested calculator tab in the MDCalc Connect app. Six clinical decision rules will be included: Canadian CT Head Rule, Canadian C-spine Rule, HEART Score, PERC Rule, Wells' PE Criteria and Wells' DVT Criteria. Predefined criteria based on chief complaint, patient age and vital signs will be used to determine when a decision rule may be relevant in a patient encounter. When a patient meets all of the predefined criteria, the intervention will be triggered.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Clinical Decision Rule Alerts

Intervention Type OTHER

The

Control Group

The control group will be usual care. Specifically, providers in the control group will not receive the clinical decision rule alert or the default suggested calculator tab in the MDCalc Connect app. The control group providers will have access to the MDCalc Connect app in its standard form and functionality.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group