Embedding research recruitment in a community resource e-prescribing system: lessons from an implementation study on Chicago's South Side.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The study sought to implement and assess the CommunityRx e-prescribing system to recruit research participants from a predominantly non-Hispanic Black community on Chicago's South Side.

Materials and methods

CommunityRx integrates with electronic medical record systems to generate a personalized list of health-promoting community resources (HealtheRx). Between December 2015 and December 2016, HealtheRxs distributed at outpatient visits to adults with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease also incentivized participation in a pulmonary research registry. Usual practices for registry recruitment continued in parallel.

Results

Focus groups established acceptability and appropriateness among the target population. Pulmonary research registry recruitment

SUBMITTER: Feldmeth G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7587152 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature