Use of Electronic Health Records to Develop and Implement a Silent Best Practice Alert Notification System for Patient Recruitment in Clinical Research: Quality Improvement Initiative.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Participant recruitment, especially for frail, elderly, hospitalized patients, remains one of the greatest challenges for many research groups. Traditional recruitment methods such as chart reviews are often inefficient, low-yielding, time consuming, and expensive. Best Practice Alert (BPA) systems have previously been used to improve clinical care and inform provider decision making, but the system has not been widely used in the setting of clinical research.

Objective

The primary objective of this quality-improvement initiative was to develop, implement, and refine a silent Best Practice Alert (sBPA) system that could maximize recruitment efficiency.

Methods

The captured duration of the screening sessions for both methods combined with the allotted resear

SUBMITTER: Devoe C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6658304 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature