Interrupting providers with clinical decision support to improve care for heart failure.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evidence-based therapy for heart failure remains underutilized at hospital discharge, particularly for patients with heart failure who are hospitalized for another cause. We developed clinical decision support (CDS) to recommend an angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor during hospitalization to promote its continuation at discharge. The CDS was designed to be implemented in both interruptive and non-interruptive versions.

Objectives

To compare the effectiveness and implementation of interruptive and non-interruptive versions of a CDS to improve care for heart failure.

Methods

Hospitalizations of patients with reduced ejection fraction were pseudo-randomized to deliver interruptive or non-interruptive CDS alerts to providers based on even or odd medi

SUBMITTER: Blecker S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6994190 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature