A cluster randomized clinical trial to improve prescribing patterns in ambulatory pediatrics.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Having shown previously that an electronic prescription writer and decision support system improved pediatric prescribing behavior for otitis media in an academic clinic setting, we assessed whether point-of-care delivery of evidence could demonstrate similar effects for a wide range of other common pediatric conditions.

Design

Cluster randomized controlled trial.

Setting

A teaching clinic/clinical practice site and a primary care pediatric clinic serving a rural and semi-urban patient mix.

Participants

A total of 36 providers at the teaching clinic/practice site and eight providers at the private primary pediatric clinic.

Intervention

An evidence-based message system that presented real-time evidence to providers based on prescribing practice

SUBMITTER: Davis RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1876598 | biostudies-literature | 2007 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature