Provider Alerts to Reduce Unnecessary Care

Stanford University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Physician's Role

Treatments: Behavioral: Electronic Record Alert

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02709772

SHCQICW1

Details and patient eligibility

About

10 Clinics within Stanford Health Care are randomized to receive or not receive provider alerts for 5 commonly overused tests and treatments.

Full description

10 Clinics within Stanford Health Care are randomized to receive or not receive provider alerts for 5 commonly overused tests and treatments.

Thus there will potentially be 50 clinics enrolled across the 5 tests/treatment categories. However, it is expected that some clinics will meet criteria to be one of the 10 clinics in more than test/treatment category. Thus the total number of clinics involved will be between 10 and 50.

These 5 tests / treatments are taken from the Choosing Wisely list. All alerts will be provided using the electronic medical record and will be automated.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

High volume clinics defined as the top 10 clinics in Stanford Health Care based on number of electronic orders.

Exclusion criteria

None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

---

50 participants in 2 patient groups

Provider Alert

Active Comparator group

Description:

This arm is the intervention arm. This arm will receive the Electronic Record Alert.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Electronic Record Alert

No Provider Alert

No Intervention group

Description:

This arm is the control arm.