NCT04702308

Non-Interruptive Alerts for Improving Use of Clinical Decision Rules

The Use of Non-Interruptive Alerts for Improving the Use of Clinical Decision Rules in the Emergency Department: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 70 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Utah · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study is an extension of a planned quality improvement project that aims to promote standard of care by increasing the use of evidence-based clinical decision rules amongst emergency medicine providers in the University of Utah Emergency Department. Patient-specific information from the EHR will be used to recommend the use of relevant clinical decision rules to emergency medicine providers at the point-of-care. These recommendations will be in the form of non-interruptive alerts with one-click access to the suggested decision rules through the MDCalc Connect EHR add-on application. Specific aims of the study are to determine if 1) patient-specific non-interruptive alerts increase the use of clinical decision rules amongst emergency medicine providers and 2) an increase in the use of clinical decision rules affects provider ordering habits.

Conditions

• Pulmonary Embolism
• Deep Vein Thrombosis
• Minor Head Injury
• Chest Pain
• Neck Trauma

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Clinical Decision Rule Alerts	The

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-02-18
• Primary completion: 2021-11-18
• Completion: 2022-11-04
• First posted: 2021-01-08
• Last updated: 2023-11-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States