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Clinical Trials/ISRCTN50890124
ISRCTN50890124
Completed
N/A

Effectiveness of an intensive educational intervention for Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE)-mediated medication management in the outpatient clinic to increase quality of care and patient safety: a multicentre, cluster randomized, controlled trial and cost-effectiveness analysis

niversity Medical Centre Utrecht (Netherlands)0 sites1,218 target enrollmentJune 10, 2013

Overview

Phase
N/A
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
Goal: Improving the knowledge, skills and attitudes of physicians in the outpatient clinic towards their CPOE-system to prevent adverse drug events. Domain: Physicians in internal medicine and its subspecialties in the outpatient clinic
Sponsor
niversity Medical Centre Utrecht (Netherlands)
Enrollment
1218
Status
Completed
Last Updated
6 years ago

Overview

Brief Summary

Registry
who.int
Start Date
June 10, 2013
End Date
April 1, 2015
Last Updated
6 years ago
Study Type
Interventional
Sex
All

Investigators

Sponsor
niversity Medical Centre Utrecht (Netherlands)

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • Eligibility of physicians for entering the trial:
  • 1\. Physicians who work in a department where CPOE is available for a minimum of one month, and who received the standard training approach more than one month ago
  • 2\. Physicians who work in an organisation where it is possible to log CPOE data \- specialists and residents of internal medicine, cardiology, pulmonology, geriatrics, gastroenterology and rheumatology
  • 3\. Physicians working at the outpatient clinic for at least 4 hours a week
  • 4\. Physicians who agreed to participate in the study
  • Eligibility of patients for participation:
  • 1\. Patients older than 18 years old
  • 2\. Patients visiting the outpatient clinic during the 4\-week enrolment period, consulting a physician who is participating in the study

Exclusion Criteria

  • For physicians:
  • 1\. Physicians who were involved in the development of the educational intervention
  • 2\. Physicians who work with a system that does not meet the basic requirements of a CPOE system, which are: possibility to store a current medication list and allergies, and basic decision support (drug\-drug interaction, dose, duplicate order, contra\-indications) (van der Sijs 2010\)
  • 3\. Physicians who work in an organisation that intends to change the CPOE system during the course of the study
  • 4\. Physicians who work in an organisation that is undertaking interventions that might overlap with this intervention
  • For patients:
  • 1\. Patients who are unable to understand and talk Dutch or English
  • 2\. Patients who have insufficient understanding of their medications to answer questions about their medicaments, or patients who do not have a caregiver who can answer the questions

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Not specified

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