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ArticleJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA2019

Estimating the impact of deploying an electronic clinical decision support tool as part of a national practice improvement project.

Ellen K Kerns, Vincent S Staggs, Sarah D Fouquet, Russell J McCulloh

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Article in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Ellen K KernsDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
Vincent S StaggsDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
Sarah D FouquetDepartment of Biomedical & Health Informatics, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
Russell J McCullohDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.

Funding

The Nebraska Pediatric Clinic Trials UnitUG1OD024953 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER · PI Bradford A Brabec, Ellen Kerns · 2016 to 2026
$4.4M
NIH HHS UG1 OD024953
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveEstimate the impact on clinical practice of using a mobile device-based electronic clinical decision support (mECDS) tool within a national standardization project. MATERIALS AND

methodsAn mECDS tool (app) was released as part of a change package to provide febrile infant management guidance to clinicians. App usage was analyzed using 2 measures: metric hits per case (metric-related screen view count divided by site-reported febrile infant cases in each designated market area [DMA] monthly) and cumulative prior metric hits per site (DMA metric hits summed from study month 1 until the month preceding the index, divided by sites in the DMA). For each metric, a mixed logistic regression model was fit to model site performance as a function of app usage.

resultsAn increase of 200 cumulative prior metric hits per site was associated with increased odds of adherence to 3 metrics: appropriate admission (odds ratio [OR], 1.12; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.06-1.18), appropriate length of stay (OR, 1.20; 95% CI, 1.12-1.28), and inappropriate chest x-ray (OR, 0.82; 95% CI, 0.75-0.91). Ten additional metric hits per case were also associated: OR were 1.18 (95% CI, 1.02-1.36), 1.36 (95% CI, 1.14-1.62), and 0.74 (95% CI, 0.62-0.89). DISCUSSION: mECDS tools are increasingly being implemented, but their impact on clinical practice is poorly described. To our knowledge, although ecologic in nature, this report is the first to link clinical practice to mECDS use on a national scale and outside of an electronic health record.

conclusionsmECDS use was associated with changes in adherence to targeted metrics. Future studies should seek to link mECDS usage more directly to clinical practice and assess other site-level factors.

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Decision Support Systems, ClinicalMobile ApplicationsAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial InfectionsDiagnostic ErrorsFever of Unknown OriginHospitalizationHumansInfantPediatricsPractice Guidelines as TopicQuality ImprovementRadiography, ThoracicSepsisSmartphoneUnited StatesAnti-Bacterial Agentsclinical decision supportclinical practice guidelineguideline adherencemobile applicationsquality improvement

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PMID30925592
PMCPMC6562155

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