The Effect of an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Alert on Hepatitis B Screening

University of California (UC) Davis

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hepatitis B

Treatments: Other: Electronic HBV Alert

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04240678

8301387

Details and patient eligibility

About

Asian and Pacific Islander Americans at risk, but never tested for chronic hepatitis B have been randomized to receive an electronic alert in their electronic medical chart to remind primary care physicians to screen them for chronic hepatitis B.

Enrollment: 8,299 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria: Asian and Pacific Islanders (API) who have not yet received HBsAg testing. API will be identified using a novel algorithm which identifies them using their surname, language preference, country of origin.

Exclusion Criteria: Previous HBsAg completion.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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8,299 participants in 2 patient groups

HBV Alert Group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Electronic HBV Alert

Control Group

No Intervention group