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Prompting clinicians about preventive care measures: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.
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Who cites it
88 citing papers in PubMed, 15 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Understanding "Alert Fatigue" in Primary Care: Qualitative Systematic Review of General Practitioners Attitudes and Experiences of Clinical Alerts, Prompts, and Reminders.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Manually-generated reminders delivered on paper: effects on professional practice and patient outcomes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Interventions to improve screening and appropriate referral of patients with cancer for psychosocial distress: systematic review.BMJ open · 2018Pooled it
- Computer-generated reminders delivered on paper to healthcare professionals: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Family Meeting Tools in Palliative and Intensive Care Settings.The American journal of hospice & palliative care · 2016Pooled it
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- A systematic review of the implementation and impact of asthma protocols.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2014Pooled it
- Interventions to improve safe and effective medicines use by consumers: an overview of systematic reviews.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014Pooled it
- Reminder systems for women with previous gestational diabetes mellitus to increase uptake of testing for type 2 diabetes or impaired glucose tolerance.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014Pooled it
- Changing clinical practice through patient specific reminders available at the time of the clinical encounter: systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of general internal medicine · 2012Pooled it
- Computerized clinical decision support systems for primary preventive care: a decision-maker-researcher partnership systematic review of effects on process of care and patient outcomes.Implementation science : IS · 2011Pooled it
- The impact of eHealth on the quality and safety of health care: a systematic overview.PLoS medicine · 2011Pooled it
- Effect of point-of-care computer reminders on physician behaviour: a systematic review.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2010Pooled it
- The effect of feedback to general practitioners on quality of care for people with type 2 diabetes. A systematic review of the literature.BMC family practice · 2009Pooled it
- Traversing the many paths of workflow research: developing a conceptual framework of workflow terminology through a systematic literature review.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIAPooled it
- When should electronic medical records reminders for cancer screening stop?-Results from a national physician survey.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2023Trial
- Rural Clients' Continuity Into Follow-Up Substance Use Disorder Treatment: Impacts of Travel Time, Incentives, and Alerts.The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2020Trial
- Effectiveness of electronic point-of-care reminders versus monthly feedback to improve adherence to 10 clinical recommendations in primary care: a cluster randomized clinical trial.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2019Trial
- Electronic physician notifications to improve guideline-based anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation: a randomized controlled trial.Journal of general internal medicine · 2018Trial
- Impact of Agency Receipt of Incentives and Reminders on Engagement and Continuity of Care for Clients With Co-Occurring Disorders.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2018Trial
28 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Preventive care measures remain underutilized despite recommendations to increase their use. The objective of this review was to examine the characteristics, types, and effects of paper- and computer-based interventions for preventive care measures. The study provides an update to a previous systematic review. We included randomized controlled trials that implemented a physician reminder and measured the effects on the frequency of providing preventive care. Of the 1,535 articles identified, 28 met inclusion criteria and were combined with the 33 studies from the previous review. The studies involved 264 preventive care interventions, 4,638 clinicians and 144,605 patients. Implementation strategies included combined paper-based with computer generated reminders in 34 studies (56%), paper-based reminders in 19 studies (31%), and fully computerized reminders in 8 studies (13%). The average increase for the three strategies in delivering preventive care measures ranged between 12% and 14%. Cardiac care and smoking cessation reminders were most effective. Computer-generated prompts were the most commonly implemented reminders. Clinician reminders are a successful approach for increasing the rates of delivering preventive care; however, their effectiveness remains modest. Despite increased implementation of electronic health records, randomized controlled trials evaluating computerized reminder systems are infrequent.
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