Decision Support for Heart Failure Prescribing

Not Applicable

Not yet recruiting

Interventions: Other: Personalized Clinical Decision Support (CDS)
Other: Traditional Clinical Decision Support (CDS)

Brief Summary: Clinical decision support (CDS) tools can 'nudge' clinicians to make the best decisions easy. Although required by "meaningful use" regulations, more than 40% of CDS lead to no change and the remaining lead to improvements that are modest at best. This is because CDS tools often ignore contextual factors and present irrelevant information. Although many tools have undergone patient-specific optimization, 'traditional CDS' are rarely clinician-specific. For example, a traditional CDS tool for beta blockers and heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) addresses common prescribing misconceptions by stating asthma is not a contraindication and providing a safe threshold for blood pressure. For clinicians without these misconceptions, these statements are irrelevant and distract from key information. A 'personalized CDS' would evaluate clinician past prescribing patterns to determine whether prescribing misconceptions might exist and then conditionally present information to address those misconceptions. The objective of this research is to create personalized clinician-specific CDS that overcome shortcomings of traditional CDS. The central hypothesis is a personalized CDS that minimizes irrelevant information will lead to a higher rate of prescribing guideline-directed management and therapy (GDMT) for HFrEF compared to a traditional CDS.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria

The study subjects are potential users of the CDS, specifically clinicians with prescribing privileges who practice at one of the health system's (UCHealth) outpatient cardiology or primary care clinics. Because we are observing their prescribing behaviors, we are also evaluating patient characteristics which could influence their prescribing decisions.

Exclusion Criteria

Clinicians who do not practice in cardiology or primary care clinics or do not practice within UCHealth system.

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Personalized Clinical Decision Support (CDS)	Personalized Clinical Decision Support (CDS)	-
Traditional Clinical Decision Support (CDS)	Traditional Clinical Decision Support (CDS)	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of CDS alerts resulting in the prescription of a recommended medication	6 months	The primary outcome is number of CDS alerts that resulted in the prescription of the medication recommended by the CDS alert. Recommended medications include either evidence-based beta blockers, sacubitril/valsartan, mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists or sodium/glucose cotransport 2 inhibitors. Prescriptions will be based on actual prescription orders instead of clinician-stated responses, given the latter may overestimate effectiveness.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of patients the CDS alerted for	6 months	This outcome evaluates the reach of the CDS by counting the number of patients that the CDS alerted for.
Number of prescription orders for guideline directed management and therapies (GDMT) for heart failure	6 months	This outcome measures the number of prescriptions for each of the four categories of GDMT: evidence-based beta blockers, sacubitril/valsartan, mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists or sodium/glucose cotransport 2 inhibitors.
Number of alerts that were not outright dismissed	6 months	This outcome will help investigators understand if the CDS id being used or dismissed.

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