Comprehensive Clinical Decision Support (CDS) for the Primary Care of Premature Infants
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Prematurity
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Enrollment
- 1517
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Evaluate usability of the intervention
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 13 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
This study will use a rules-based expert system embedded in an electronic health record (EHR) to extract, interpret, and present salient facts and recommendations related to the healthcare of premature infants.
Detailed Description
Premature infants are a vulnerable population with multiple inter-related health problems that put them at risk for poor outcomes. Electronic health records capture large amounts of information that may help guide decisions, but existing alert and reminder-based clinical decision support (CDS) frameworks do not adequately apply multiple overlapping care guidelines to complex patient histories to produce coherent clinical recommendations. The primary objective of the study is to design and evaluate the usability of a CDS intervention to improve the quality of primary care for low birth weight (LBW) and very low birth weight (VLBW) premature infants from the time of intensive care nursery discharge through 24 months corrected gestational age
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •All clinicians from participating practices.
- •Premature Infants: Receive preventive healthcare from a participating practice at least twice during the study period; (2) age less than 24 months; and (3) birth weight less than 2000 g or gestational age at birth less than 35 weeks.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Residents will not eligible to participate in this study due to the fact that they receive significant ongoing education related to the inpatient and outpatient management of premature infants as part of their day-to-day training.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Evaluate usability of the intervention
Time Frame: 12 months
Design and evaluation of the pre-implementation data-mining and expert system will employ usability methods from the human-computer interaction (HCI) field. The methods are based on the collection of quantitative and qualitative data where each method has specific metric-based goals that are to be achieved before the next phase. 10-20 clinicians, including attending physicians, nurse practitioners and nurses, from a single practice will be recruited to participate in the Usability Study.
Secondary Outcomes
- Evaluate effect on care process(12 months)