Primary-care-provider Identification And Notification (PIANO)

Columbia University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Emergency

Treatments: Other: Notification

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01984645

AAAK1805

Details and patient eligibility

About

New York-Presbyterian Hospital has created a system that notifies its primary care providers whenever their patients are admitted to the hospital. In this study, the investigators want to evaluate how accurate this system is and how it is affecting the primary providers and their health care delivery.

Full description

The investigators will interview the participating providers to understand if they were aware of the admission of their patients, and how they want to get involved in the care of that patient while he/she is in hospital. The investigators will also look at the data in the Electronic Health Record system to understand how providers are acting in response to the notifications.

Lastly, the investigators will determine if the notifications have resulted in any change in the care of the patients, specifically in terms of the number of days from discharge until the next clinic visit.

Enrollment: 7,023 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Primary Care Provider at the New York Presbyterian.

Exclusion criteria

• No clinic rotation during the study period

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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7,023 participants in 2 patient groups

Notification

Experimental group

Description:

Providers in this arm will receive a secure online notification whenever their patients are visited in the emergency department or admitted as an inpatient.

Treatment:

Other: Notification

No intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

Providers in this arm will not get a secure online notification about their patient's visit to the emergency department or inpatient admission.