NCT00915304

Evidence-Based Medicine Electronic Decision Support Study

Patient Specific Automatic Reminders in Primary Care - the EBMeDS Randomised Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1 / Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 12,101 (actual)
• Sponsor: Tampere University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of the Evidence-Based Medicine electronic Decision Support (EBMeDS) automatic reminders in primary health care. Hypothesis (1)is that in the intervention group the total number of EBMeDS reminders will decrease compared to the control group. Hypothesis (2) is that in the intervention group the quality measures will increase faster compared to the control group at follow-up time.

Conditions

• Decision Support Systems, Clinical

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	The EBMeDS reminders	Phase I: EBMeDS reminders specific to the visiting or caring patient and his/her clinical problem are generated when the practitioner uses the electronic patient record. During visits of intervention group patients the EBMeDS reminders will be shown on screen to the practitioner. Phase II: As phase I and in addition, results of the Virtual Health Check (VHC) of all the intervention group patients will be shown to the practitioners.Phase II will be fulfilled in Autumn 2010 and follow-up time will be about 3 months.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-06-01
• Primary completion: 2011-02-01
• Completion: 2011-02-01
• First posted: 2009-06-08
• Last updated: 2012-12-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Finland