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CompletedNCT00348751

CholGate - The Effect of Alerting Versus on Demand Computer Based Decision Support on Treatment of Dyslipidaemia by General Practitioners

The Effect of Alerting Versus on Demand Computer Based Decision Support on Treatment of Dyslipidaemia by General Practitioners - The CholGate Randomized Trial

Status
Completed
Phase
N/A
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
Sponsor
Erasmus Medical Center · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
18 Years – 70 Years
Healthy volunteers

Summary

Indirect evidence show alerting physicians with clinical decision support systems (CDSS) seem to change behaviour more than requiring users to actively initiate the system. However, randomized trials comparing these methods in a clinical setting are lacking. In this study we compare the effect of Alerting physicians with a CDSS or actively requiring initiation of CDSS on the adherence of Dutch general practitioners to the Cholesterol guideline of the Dutch college of General Practitioners.

Detailed description

Indirect evidence show alerting physicians with clinical decision support systems (CDSS) seem to change behaviour more than requiring users to actively initiate the system. However, randomized trials comparing these methods in a clinical setting are lacking. In this study we compare the effect of Alerting physicians with a CDSS or actively requiring initiation of CDSS on the adherence of Dutch general practitioners to the Cholesterol guideline of the Dutch college of General Practitioners, using a clinical decsion support system called CholGate. This system has the functionality to provide both Alerting and On-Demand decision support. Users are free to negate the advise provided by the decision support system. The trial will have a cluster randomized structure.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
DEVICECholGate

Timeline

Start date
2004-06-01
Completion
2005-11-01
First posted
2006-07-06
Last updated
2008-05-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Netherlands

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00348751. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.