Design of Behavioral Economic Applications to Geriatrics Leveraging Electronic Health Records (BEAGLE): A pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Overtesting and treatment of older patients is common and may lead to harms. The Choosing Wisely campaign has provided recommendations to reduce overtesting and overtreatment of older adults. Behavioral economics-informed interventions embedded within the electronic health record (EHR) have been shown to reduce overuse in several areas. Our objective is to conduct a parallel arm, pragmatic cluster-randomized trial to evaluate the effectiveness of behavioral-economics-informed clinical decision support (CDS) interventions previously piloted in primary care clinics and designed to reduce overtesting and overtreatment in older adults.

Methods/design

This trial has two parallel arms: clinician education alone vs. clinician education plus behavioral-economics-informed

SUBMITTER: Brown T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8724916 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature