Clinical trial NCT02577198: Computerized Decision Support System Linked to Electronic Health Records to Improve Patient Care in a General Hospital
Official title: Implementing an Evidence-based Computerized Decision Support System Linked to Electronic Health Records to Improve Patient Care in a General Hospital
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Physician's Role
Lead sponsor: I.R.C.C.S Ospedale Galeazzi-Sant'Ambrogio
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: University of Milan
First posted: 2015-10-16
Enrollment: 6479
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: Computerized decision support systems (CDSSs) are information technology-based software that provide health professionals with actionable, patient-specific recommendations or guidelines for disease diagnosis, treatment, and management at the point-of-care. CDSSs may be integrated with patient electronic health records (EHRs) and evidence-based knowledge.

Detailed description: The investigators designed a pragmatic randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of patient-specific, point-of-care reminders on clinical practice and the quality of care. The investigators hypothesize that these reminders can increase clinician adherence to guidelines and, eventually, improve the quality of care offered to hospitalized patients. The results of the investigators study will contribute to the current understanding of the effectiveness of CDSSs in primary care and hospital settings.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

All of the patients admitted into the internal medicine departments of the Azienda Ospedaliera di Desio e Vimercate during the study period.

Exclusion Criteria:

None

Primary outcomes:
measure: Resolution rates
timeFrame: 12 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: in-hospital mortality
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: length of hospital stay
timeFrame: 12 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Vimercate
country: Italy
facility: Ospedale di Vimercate
state: Lombardia
Study officials:
affiliation: Unità di Epidemiologia Clinica, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Milano
name: Pasquale Lorenzo Moja, MD, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Moja L, Kwag KH, Lytras T, Bertizzolo L, Brandt L, Pecoraro V, Rigon G, Vaona A, Ruggiero F, Mangia M, Iorio A, Kunnamo I, Bonovas S. Effectiveness of computerized decision support systems linked to electronic health records: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Am J Public Health. 2014 Dec;104(12):e12-22. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302164. Epub 2014 Oct 16.
citation: Moja L, Liberati EG, Galuppo L, Gorli M, Maraldi M, Nanni O, Rigon G, Ruggieri P, Ruggiero F, Scaratti G, Vaona A, Kwag KH. Barriers and facilitators to the uptake of computerized clinical decision support systems in specialty hospitals: protocol for a qualitative cross-sectional study. Implement Sci. 2014 Aug 28;9:105. doi: 10.1186/s13012-014-0105-0.
citation: Liberati EG, Galuppo L, Gorli M, Maraldi M, Ruggiero F, Capobussi M, Banzi R, Kwag K, Scaratti G, Nanni O, Ruggieri P, Polo Friz H, Cimminiello C, Bosio M, Mangia M, Moja L. [Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of computerized decision support systems in Italian hospitals: a grounded theory study]. Recenti Prog Med. 2015 Apr;106(4):180-91. doi: 10.1701/1830.20032. Italian.
citation: Moja L, Polo Friz H, Capobussi M, Kwag K, Banzi R, Ruggiero F, Gonzalez-Lorenzo M, Liberati EG, Mangia M, Nyberg P, Kunnamo I, Cimminiello C, Vighi G, Grimshaw J, Bonovas S. Implementing an evidence-based computerized decision support system to improve patient care in a general hospital: the CODES study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Implement Sci. 2016 Jul 7;11(1):89. doi: 10.1186/s13012-016-0455-x.
citation: Moja L, Polo Friz H, Capobussi M, Kwag K, Banzi R, Ruggiero F, Gonzalez-Lorenzo M, Liberati EG, Mangia M, Nyberg P, Kunnamo I, Cimminiello C, Vighi G, Grimshaw JM, Delgrossi G, Bonovas S. Effectiveness of a Hospital-Based Computerized Decision Support System on Clinician Recommendations and Patient Outcomes: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2019 Dec 2;2(12):e1917094. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.17094.