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Clinical decision support (CDS) tools can 'nudge' clinicians to make the best decisions easy. Although required by "meaningful use" regulations, more than 40% of CDS lead to no change and the remaining lead to improvements that are modest at best. This is because CDS tools often ignore contextual factors and present irrelevant information. Although many tools have undergone patient-specific optimization, 'traditional CDS' are rarely clinician-specific. For example, a traditional CDS tool for beta blockers and heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) addresses common prescribing misconceptions by stating asthma is not a contraindication and providing a safe threshold for blood pressure. For clinicians without these misconceptions, these statements are irrelevant and distract from key information. A 'personalized CDS' would evaluate clinician past prescribing patterns to determine whether prescribing misconceptions might exist and then conditionally present information to address those misconceptions. The objective of this research is to create personalized clinician-specific CDS that overcome shortcomings of traditional CDS. The central hypothesis is a personalized CDS that minimizes irrelevant information will lead to a higher rate of prescribing guideline-directed management and therapy (GDMT) for HFrEF compared to a traditional CDS.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Traditional Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | Experimental | Clinicians will receive traditional CDS and perform usual care, which is patient-specific but not clinician-specific. |
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| Personalized Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | Experimental | Clinicians will receive a personalized CDS intervention that evaluates clinician past prescribing patterns to determine whether prescribing misconceptions might exist, and then conditionally present information to address those misconceptions through a nudge in the EHR. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Personalized Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | Other | The personalized CDS intervention evaluates clinician past prescribing patterns to determine whether prescribing misconceptions might exist and then conditionally present information to address those misconceptions. This is done through a nudge in the electronic health record that addresses common prescribing misconceptions for heart failure. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Number of CDS alerts resulting in the prescription of a recommended medication | The primary outcome is number of CDS alerts that resulted in the prescription of the medication recommended by the CDS alert. Recommended medications include either evidence-based beta blockers, sacubitril/valsartan, mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists or sodium/glucose cotransport 2 inhibitors. Prescriptions will be based on actual prescription orders instead of clinician-stated responses, given the latter may overestimate effectiveness. | 6 months |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Number of patients the CDS alerted for | This outcome evaluates the reach of the CDS by counting the number of patients that the CDS alerted for. | 6 months |
| Number of alerts that were not outright dismissed |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Katy E Trinkley, PharmD, PhD | University of Colorado, Denver | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| UCHealth Primary Care and Cardiology Outpatient Clinics | Aurora | Colorado | 80045 | United States |
Data obtained through this study may be provided to qualified researchers with academic interest in related areas of interest. Data shared will be coded, with no PHI included. Approval of the request and execution of all applicable agreements (e.g., data use/sharing agreements) are prerequisites to the sharing of data with the requesting party. Data requests can be submitted starting 9 months after article publication and the data will be made accessible for up to 24 months. Access to trial IPD can be requested by qualified researchers engaging in independent scientific research, and will be provided following review and approval of a research proposal and Statistical Analysis Plan (SAP) and execution of a Data Sharing Agreement.
Data requests can be submitted starting 9 months after article publication and the data will be made accessible for up to 24 months.
Data obtained through this study may be provided to qualified researchers with academic interest in related areas of interest. Data shared will be coded, with no PHI included. Approval of the request and execution of all applicable agreements (e.g., data use/sharing agreements) are prerequisites to the sharing of data with the requesting party. Access to trial IPD can be requested by qualified researchers engaging in independent scientific research, and will be provided following review and approval of a research proposal and Statistical Analysis Plan (SAP) and execution of a Data Sharing Agreement.
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| ID | Term |
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| D006333 | Heart Failure |
| ID | Term |
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| D006331 | Heart Diseases |
| D002318 | Cardiovascular Diseases |
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Compare traditional and personalized CDS in a pragmatic randomized controlled trial at one health system.
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| Traditional Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | Other | The traditional CDS is the usual care intervention, which is patient-specific but are not clinician-specific. |
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This outcome will help investigators understand if the CDS id being used or dismissed.
| 6 months |
| Number of prescription orders for guideline directed management and therapies (GDMT) for heart failure | This outcome measures the number of prescriptions for each of the four categories of GDMT: evidence-based beta blockers, sacubitril/valsartan, mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists or sodium/glucose cotransport 2 inhibitors. | 6 months |