Non-Interruptive Alerts for Improving Use of Clinical Decision Rules

The Use of Non-Interruptive Alerts for Improving the Use of Clinical Decision Rules in the Emergency Department: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

This study is an extension of a planned quality improvement project that aims to promote standard of care by increasing the use of evidence-based clinical decision rules amongst emergency medicine providers in the University of Utah Emergency Department. Patient-specific information from the EHR will be used to recommend the use of relevant clinical decision rules to emergency medicine providers at the point-of-care. These recommendations will be in the form of non-interruptive alerts with one-click access to the suggested decision rules through the MDCalc Connect EHR add-on application. Specific aims of the study are to determine if 1) patient-specific non-interruptive alerts increase the use of clinical decision rules amongst emergency medicine providers and 2) an increase in the use of clinical decision rules affects provider ordering habits.

Patient Inclusion Criteria:

• 16 years of age or older
• Qualifying chief complaint*

Patient Exclusion Criteria:

• None

  • A full list of the qualifying chief complaints is provided in Appendix A of the full research protocol.