Conducting a representative national randomized control trial of tailored clinical decision support for nurses remotely: Methods and implications.

ABSTRACT: Clinical Decision Support (CDS) systems, patient specific evidence delivered to clinicians via the electronic health record (EHR) at the right time and in the right format, has the potential to improve patient outcomes. Unfortunately, outcomes of CDS research are mixed. A potential cause lies in its testing. Many CDS are implemented in practice without sufficient testing, potentially leading to patient harm. When testing is conducted, most research has focused on "what" evidence to provide with little attention to the impact of the CDS display format (e.g., textual, graphical) on the user. In an adequately powered randomized control trial with 220 hospital based registered nurses, we will compare 4 randomly assigned CDS format groups (text, text table, text graphs, tailored to subject's gr

SUBMITTER: Lopez KD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9851662 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature