An Electronic Decision Support Tool to Improve Outpatient Asthma Care

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Conditions studied: Asthma

In brief

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's ambulatory network uses an electronic health record (EHR) to document clinical information. Using the EHR, a clinical decision support tool will be designed to help the primary care physician's in caring for children with asthma. The goal will be to improve the primary care physician's use of the national Institutes of Health guidelines for the best care for asthma. To study this EHR decision support tool, it will be introduced into 5 practices while 5 other practices will have the existing asthma care information. It will be determined whether the physicians in the practices with the decision support tool are better at following the asthma guidelines. If the decision support tool works...then it will be offered to others to use with their EHR systems.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01522144

Run by

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

People needed

1030

Starts

2006-07-01

Expected to finish

2008-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2012-01-31

Who can join

Age: 1 and older, up to 18. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Children with the diagnosis of asthma
• Children enrolled in one of 10 selected primary care practices in the PeRC practice-based research network

Where it is running

• The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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