Computerized Guidelines Enhanced by Symptoms and History: Clinical Effects

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Heart Failure

In brief

Physician compliance with practice guidelines is imperfect. Computer-generated reminders from electronic medical record systems have been shown to increase compliance with guidelines, but they often require symptom and history data, which limits computer facilitation. Heart failure is a serious condition for which compliance with established guidelines is suboptimal. Physicians� compliance with heart failure guidelines may improve if such reminders use symptom and history data.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00013039

Run by

US Department of Veterans Affairs

People needed

1000

Expected to finish

2001-02-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-04-07

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Left ventricular systolic dysfunction by echocardiogram or cardiac MUGA scan and the outpatient diagnosis of heart failure and the primary care physician's statement that he or she is actively treating the patient for heart failure.

Where it is running

• Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indianapolis, IN — Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
• Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC — Durham, North Carolina, United States
• VA Puget Sound Health Care System Seattle Division, Seattle, WA — Seattle, Washington, United States

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