NCT01478711

Comprehensive Clinical Decision Support (CDS) for the Primary Care of Premature Infants

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,517 (actual)
• Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Weeks – 35 Weeks
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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

Conditions

• Prematurity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Clinical Decision Support Tool	A clinical decision support tool embedded within Epic will appear for children with a history of prematurity at the intervention sites.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-09-01
• Primary completion: 2012-10-01
• Completion: 2012-10-01
• First posted: 2011-11-23
• Last updated: 2013-02-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States