Nudging physicians and patients with autopend clinical decision support to improve diabetes management.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine the impact on routine glycated hemoglobin (A1C) laboratory test completion of incorporating an autopend laboratory order functionality into clinical decision support, which (1) routed provider alerts to a separate electronic folder, (2) automatically populated preauthorization forms, and (3) linked the timing and content of electronic patient health maintenance topic (HMT) reminders to the provider authorization.

Study design

Observational pre-post study from November 2011 (1 year before autopend) through June 2014 (1.5 years after).

Methods

The study included HMT reminders concerning an A1C test for patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes (N = 15,630 HMT reminders; 8792 patients) in a large multispecialty ambulatory healthcare system. A Cox pr

SUBMITTER: Panattoni L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9245447 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature