Clinical decision support to promote safe prescribing to women of reproductive age: a cluster-randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Potentially teratogenic medications are frequently prescribed without provision of contraceptive counseling.

Objective

To evaluate whether computerized clinical decision support (CDS) can increase primary care providers' (PCPs') provision of family planning services when prescribing potentially teratogenic medications.

Design

Cluster-randomized trial conducted in one academic and one community-based practice between October of 2008 and April of 2010.

Participants/interventions

Forty-one PCPs were randomized to receive one of two types of CDS which alerted them to risks of medication-induced birth defects when ordering potentially teratogenic medications for women who may become pregnant. The 'simple' CDS provided a cautionary alert; the 'multifaceted

SUBMITTER: Schwarz EB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3378745 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature