Increased Rate of Prophylaxis Against Venous Thromboembolism Due to eAlerts

University of Zurich (UZH)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Venous Thromboembolism

Treatments: Behavioral: electronic alerts

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01598805

FZMI-KEK-ZH-Nr. 2010-0458

Details and patient eligibility

About

Now, after a cluster randomized controlled trial, eAlerts providing evidence-based guidelines on venous thromboembolism prophylaxis will be rolled out and evaluated hospital-widely.

Full description

An eAlert is displayed in the electronic patient chart if no prophylaxis has been ordered within 6 h after admission or transfer. The eAlerts provide evidence-based guidelines on venous thromboembolism prophylaxis. Now, after a cluster randomized controlled trial, the eAlerts will be rolled out and evaluated hospital-widely.

Enrollment: 10,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all in-patients hospitalized in a ward with computerized physician order entry (CPOE),
• staying at least 24 h in a ward

Exclusion criteria

• outpatients,
• ward without CPOE,
• patients transferred from an intervention to a control ward and vice versa

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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10,000 participants in 1 patient group

roll out of eAlerts

Experimental group

Description:

Roll out of eAlerts providing evidence-based guidelines on prophylaxis against venous thromboembolism. An eAlert is displayed in the electronic patient chart if no prophylaxis has been ordered within 6 h after admission or transfer.

Treatment:

Behavioral: electronic alerts