NCT01984645

Primary-care-provider Identification And Notification

Identifying Primary Care Providers and Notifying Them Upon Admission of Their Patients to New York-Presbyterian Hospital

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 7,023 (actual)
• Sponsor: Columbia University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

New York-Presbyterian Hospital has created a system that notifies its primary care providers whenever their patients are admitted to the hospital. In this study, the investigators want to evaluate how accurate this system is and how it is affecting the primary providers and their health care delivery.

Detailed description

The investigators will interview the participating providers to understand if they were aware of the admission of their patients, and how they want to get involved in the care of that patient while he/she is in hospital. The investigators will also look at the data in the Electronic Health Record system to understand how providers are acting in response to the notifications. Lastly, the investigators will determine if the notifications have resulted in any change in the care of the patients, specifically in terms of the number of days from discharge until the next clinic visit.

Conditions

• Emergency

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Notification	Providers in the intervention group will receive a secure electronic notification when their patients are visited in the emergency department or admitted as an inpatient.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-09-01
• Primary completion: 2015-03-01
• Completion: 2015-07-01
• First posted: 2013-11-15
• Last updated: 2016-02-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States