A Reminder System for Paper-Based Asthma Guidelines in the Pediatric Emergency Department

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Conditions studied: Asthma, Medical Informatics

In brief

The primary idea is that the use of a computerized reminder system to help with the guideline implementation will increase utilization and adherence of guideline-driven care, leading to improved patient outcomes. The hypothesis we aim to address is that an automatic, computerized reminder system for detecting asthma patients in the pediatric ED will increase paper-based guideline utilization compared to paper-based guideline without the system. We aim to implement a real-time, computerized asthma detection system and integrate the system with the pediatric emergency department information system, and evaluate the effect of the asthma detection system on reminding clinicians to use the paper-based asthma guideline.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00699439

Run by

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

People needed

1102

Starts

2009-07-01

Expected to finish

2015-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-08-17

Who can join

Age: 2 and older, up to 18. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• The study's inclusion criteria are:
• All patients aged 2-18 years;
• Emergency Severity Index 2 to 5; AND
• Availability of completed computerized triage documentation.

You may not qualify if…

• The exclusion criteria are:
• Critically ill patients (Emergency Severity Index 1)
• Patients who leave-without-being seen
• Patients who leave against-medical-advice
• Patients whose final diagnosis was not asthma (false positive identification by the detection system) or were determined not to be eligible for the guideline.

Where it is running

• Vanderbilt University — Nashville, Tennessee, United States

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