Development and Testing of an Electronic Health Record-Integrated Patient-Reported Outcome Application and Intervention to Improve Efficiency of Rheumatoid Arthritis Care.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Many patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have difficulty finding clinicians to treat them because of workforce shortages. We developed an app to address this problem by improving care efficiency. The app collects patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and can be used to inform visit timing, potentially reducing the volume of low-value visits. We describe the development process, intervention design, and planned study for testing the app.

Methods

We employed user-centered design, interviewing patients and clinicians, to develop the app. To improve visit efficiency, symptom tracking logic alerts clinicians to PRO trends: worsening PROs generate alerts suggesting an earlier visit, and stable or improving PROs generate notifications that scheduled visits could be delayed

SUBMITTER: Solomon DH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9661861 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature