Improving Quality With Outpatient Decision Support

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Diabetes Mellitus, Coronary Artery Disease, Osteoporosis, Hypertension, Hyperlipidemia

In brief

Assesses physician compliance with paper-based and electronic guidelines, reminders, and alerts for outpatient settings. Target areas for the reminders and alerts are disease management, medication management, and interpretation of abnormal test results.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00225628

Run by

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

People needed

3000

Starts

2000-09-01

Expected to finish

2006-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2005-09-26

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• All physicians in on-site and satellite adult outpatient clinics with the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.
• All practices must have adopted our home-grown electronic health record system, the Longitudinal Medical Record, for at least 24 months prior to the start of each intervention trial.

You may not qualify if…

• None

Where it is running

• Brigham and Women's Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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