Evaluating the Reach of Clinical Decision Support for Patients With Heart Failure

University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver)

Status

Enrolling

Conditions

Decision Support Systems, Clinical

Heart Failure

Treatments

Other: Traditional clinical decision support tool

Other: Iteratively designed (new) clinical decision support tool for virtual visits

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06847906

23SCISA1144584 (Other Identifier)

22-1154

Details and patient eligibility

About

To work best, clinical decision support tools (CDS) must be timed to provide support when healthcare decisions are made, which includes virtual visits (phone or video). Unfortunately, most CDS tools are either missing from virtual visits or not designed for the unique context of virtual visits (e.g., availability of physical assessments and labs, different workflows), which could generate new inequities for patients more likely to use virtual visits. The objective of this study is to test the reach, feasibility and acceptability of a new CDS tool for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) during virtual visits. This new CDS tool was developed through an iterative design process, and will be compared to an existing HFrEF CDS tool in a randomized pilot study at outpatient cardiology clinics throughout the UCHealth system.

Enrollment

500 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

The study subjects are potential users of the CDS, specifically clinicians with prescribing privileges who practice at one of the health system's (UCHealth) outpatient cardiology clinics. Because we are observing their prescribing behaviors in a virtual care setting (phone or video), we are also evaluating patient characteristics which could influence their prescribing decisions.

Exclusion criteria