Child Health Improvement Through Computer Automation (CHICA) Highlighting Study
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Physician Behavior
In brief
The investigators have developed a novel decision support system for implementing clinical guidelines in pediatric practice. CHICA (Child Health Improvement through Computer Automation) combines three elements: (1) pediatric guidelines encoded in Arden Syntax; (2) a dynamic, scannable paper user interface; and (3) an HL7-compliant interface to existing electronic medical record systems. The result is a system that both delivers "just-in-time" patient-relevant guidelines to physicians during the clinical encounter, and accurately captures structured data from all who interact with it. Preliminary work with CHICA has demonstrated the feasibility of using the system to implement and evaluate clinical guidelines. However, analyses have shown that physicians ignore a fair number of prompts. The investigators would like to experiment with changes to the system to see if they can increase physicians' response rates. This could include highlighting prompts, reordering them, or flagging them in other ways. The main outcome of interest in the rate at which physicians answer prompts.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01583101
- Run by
- Indiana University
- People needed
- 2237
- Starts
- 2012-04-01
- Expected to finish
- 2012-10-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2017-05-15
Who can join
Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Physicians practicing in one of our four CHICA clinics who use CHICA
You may not qualify if…
- Not being a physician practicing in one of our four CHICA clinics who use CHICA
Where it is running
- IUMG Clinic System — Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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