Outpatient electronic health records and the clinical care and outcomes of patients with diabetes mellitus.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Physicians can receive federal payments for meaningful use of complete certified electronic health records (EHRs). Evidence is limited on how EHR use affects clinical care and outcomes.

Objective

To examine the association between use of a commercially available certified EHR and clinical care processes and disease control in patients with diabetes.

Design

Quasi-experimental design with outpatient EHR implementation sequentially across 17 medical centers. Multivariate analyses adjusted for patient characteristics, medical center, time trends, and facility-level clustering.

Setting

Kaiser Permanente Northern California, an integrated delivery system.

Patients

169 711 patients with diabetes mellitus.

Intervention

Use of a commercially ava

SUBMITTER: Reed M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3603566 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature