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An Interactive Preventive Health Record (IPHR) to Promote Patient-Centered Preventive Care

This study has been completed.
Sponsor:
Collaborator:
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Virginia Commonwealth University
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT00589173
First received: December 25, 2007
Last updated: July 22, 2012
Last verified: July 2012
History of Changes

December 25, 2007
July 22, 2012
September 2007
June 2011   (final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
  • The proportion of control and intervention subjects who are current on EACH individual indicated preventive service [ Time Frame: Annual for three years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  • The proportion of control and intervention subjects who are current on ALL indicated preventive services [ Time Frame: Annual for three years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  • The mean score for intervention and control subjects for quality of clinician communication (CAPHS-CGS questions 14-20); and frequency with which patients report sharing medical decisions (CAHPS questions SD 1-3) [ Time Frame: Annual for three years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Same as current
Complete list of historical versions of study NCT00589173 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
The proportion of intervention subjects who visit the IPHR and establish an account [ Time Frame: During enrollment period ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Same as current
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An Interactive Preventive Health Record (IPHR) to Promote Patient-Centered Preventive Care
An Interactive Preventive Health Record (IPHR) to Promote Patient-Centered Preventive Care

Americans only receive 50% of indicated preventive services. We hypothesize that an interactive preventive health record (IPHR) will increase the delivery of recommended screening tests, immunizations, and counseling. The IPHR will function as a highly sophisticated personal health record for prevention, linking patients directly to their health information in the electronic record of their primary care physician. The functions of the IPHR will extend beyond those of personal health records by providing tailored recommendations, links to educational resources and decision aids, and patient and clinician reminders. Year one will focus on updating and refining an existing IPHR prototype. The second and third year, through a randomized controlled trial, will examine the effectiveness of the IPHR. Outcomes will include (1) whether the IPHR increases the delivery of recommended preventive services, (2) whether participants use the IPHR, and (3) whether the IPHR increases shared decision-making and improves clinician-patient communication. The study will take place in seven primary care practices in the Virginia Ambulatory Care Outcomes Network (ACORN) that utilize a common electronic medical record (EMR). A randomly selected sample of 5,500 of the practices' 228,000 patients, stratified by age and gender, will be assigned in a one-to-one ratio to receive a request from their clinician to use the IPHR (intervention group) or receive "usual" preventive care (control group). A Preventive Services Survey, which uses standardized questions to evaluate the delivery of preventive care, will be mailed to 4,500 patients and the CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey will be mailed to 1,000 patients. Surveys will be mailed pre-intervention, 6 month post-intervention, and 18 months post-intervention. Delivery of preventive care will be measured by the Preventive Services Survey and EMR data, while shared decision-making and clinician-patient communication will be measured by the CAHPS survey. The change from baseline to 6 and 18 months post-intervention for the control and intervention groups will be compared.
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Interventional
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Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Prevention
Prevention
  • Behavioral: Interactive Preventive Health Record (IPHR)
    Preventive health record designed to a) show patients the status of their preventive care recorded in their electronic record and b) make recommendations on what USPSTF endorsed preventive services that the user needs to receive.
  • Behavioral: "Standard" preventive care
    Existing mechanisim for receiving preventive care in primary care (i.e. patients not referred to the IPHR).
  • Experimental: Intervention
    Patients referred to the IPHR
    Intervention: Behavioral: Interactive Preventive Health Record (IPHR)
  • Active Comparator: Control
    Patients receiving "standard" preventive care
    Intervention: Behavioral: "Standard" preventive care

*   Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline.
 
Completed
5500
June 2011
June 2011   (final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Inclusion Criteria:

  • All adult patients seen in the study practices within the previous year

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Age <18 years
  • Age >75 years
Both
18 Years to 75 Years
No
Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects
United States
 
NCT00589173
PD300045, RFA-07-007
No
Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Commonwealth University
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Principal Investigator: Alex H Krist, MD MPH Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Commonwealth University
July 2012

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