EHR-based Patient Identification and Panel Management of Patients With Iron Deficiency Anemia

Northwestern University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Iron-deficiency Anemia

Treatments: Behavioral: Clinical supports

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05365308

STU00213747

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective is to determine if a set of clinical supports that includes computer-assisted identification, an EHR registry, facilitated GI referral, and an EHR tool for documentation improves the timely referral and completion of bidirectional endoscopy in men aged 18 years and older and women aged 40 years and older with iron deficiency anemia.

Enrollment: 16 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Northwestern Medical Group primary care physician (internal medicine, family medicine or geriatrics)

Exclusion criteria

No primary care office practice within Northwestern Medical Group

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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16 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention: Quality Improvement tools

Experimental group

Description:

Quality improvement tools including: computer-assisted identification of iron deficiency anemia patients with an EHR registry, facilitated GI referral, an EHR tool for documentation, and physician education.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Clinical supports

Control: usual care

No Intervention group

Description:

Physicians will be notified at the start of the study that 120 days after the study start they will receive access to the quality improvement tools available to the intervention group.