An Electronic Decision Support Tool to Improve Outpatient Asthma Care
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01522144 |
Recruitment Status
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Completed
First Posted
: January 31, 2012
Last Update Posted
: January 31, 2012
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Asthma | Behavioral: Computerized Decision support | Not Applicable |
National Asthma Education and Prevention Program guidelines (NAEPP) exist, but are under used in Primary Care. In addition, implementation of the guidelines has been shown to be vary according to the location of practice and other contextual factors.
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pediatric Research Consortium (PeRC), a practice-based research network will determine whether an innovative clinical decision support system embedded in an existing electronic health record (EHR) will improve provider adherence to the existing NAEPP guidelines.
After receiving a standardized education module based on NAEPP guidelines, 10 primary care pediatric practices (both urban and suburban) will be randomized to receive either a passive EHR (control sites) or an interactive decision support sytem (intervention sites).
The primary outcome of interest will be the proportion of patient son appropriate asthma controller medication compared over time. Secondary outcomes include the proportion of asthma patients with: 1) an updated asthma action plan 2) documentation of spirometry performed (6 to 17years) and 3) an updated problem list reflecting current asthma severity. After hours calls to providers and types of office visits related to to asthma will be tracked. Contextual factors at the clinic and patient level will be examined to assess their association with the outcomes of interest. In addition, measurement of asthma-related quality of life and missed school and work in a sample of 200 subjects from each group will be performed
If shown to be successful, this type of clinical decision support, embedded within the EHR, has the potential to be a powerful tool to improve the implementation of asthma guidelines and clinical practice guidelines for other conditions and illnesses.
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 1030 participants |
Intervention Model: | Single Group Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Official Title: | EHR Decision Support to Improve Outpatient Asthma Care |
Study Start Date : | July 2006 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | April 2008 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | August 2008 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Asthma clinical decision support
decision support compared to no decision support in a cluster-randomized trial by practise
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Behavioral: Computerized Decision support
Using a clustered randomized method, computerized decision support, embedded in the electronic health record, was offered to selected primary care practices and outcomes of asthma care were compared to those practices without the computerized decision support.
Other Name: electronic health record
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- The proportion of patients on appropriate asthma controller medication at the end of the trial [ Time Frame: assessed at each visit ]each patient who is classified as having persistant asthma should be on at least one appropriate controller medication for asthma.
- 1) an updated asthma action plan [ Time Frame: updated at least once per year ]Each patient should have an asthma care plan updated once per year
- 2)documentation of spirometry(6 to 18 yrs)in those with asthma [ Time Frame: spirometry should be done once per year ]Each patient should have had spirometry at least once per year.
- 3) an updated problem list that reflects an assessment of asthma severity [ Time Frame: tthe asthma severity should be on the problem list ]each patient should have their asthma severity classification on the thier chart

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 1 Year to 18 Years (Child, Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Children with the diagnosis of asthma
- Children enrolled in one of 10 selected primary care practices in the PeRC practice-based research network

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01522144
United States, Pennsylvania | |
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104 |
Principal Investigator: | Louis M Bell, MD | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
Publications:
Responsible Party: | lbell, Medical Director of PeRC, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01522144 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
R21HS014873 ( U.S. AHRQ Grant/Contract ) |
First Posted: | January 31, 2012 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | January 31, 2012 |
Last Verified: | January 2012 |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Asthma Bronchial Diseases Respiratory Tract Diseases Lung Diseases, Obstructive Lung Diseases |
Respiratory Hypersensitivity Hypersensitivity, Immediate Hypersensitivity Immune System Diseases |