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1 to 2 of 2 Research Studies DisplayedFauer AJ, Hoodin F, Lalonde E
Impact of a health information technology tool addressing information needs of caregivers of adult and pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplantation patients.
The authors of this article developed BMT Roadmap, a health information technology application on a tablet, to address caregivers' unmet needs with patient-specific information from the electronic health record. They conducted a preliminary feasibility study of BMT Roadmap in caregivers of adult and pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) patients and registered the study on ClinicalTrials.gov. They found that BMT Roadmap was a feasible intervention to implement in HSCT caregivers, associated with increased activation and decreased burden; quality of life, however, was lowered across hospitalization. The authors conclude that their findings support the need for further development of caregiver-specific self-directed resources and provision for both inpatient and outpatient across the HSCT trajectory.
AHRQ-funded; HS023613.
Citation: Fauer AJ, Hoodin F, Lalonde E .
Impact of a health information technology tool addressing information needs of caregivers of adult and pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplantation patients.
Support Care Cancer 2019 Jun;27(6):2103-12. doi: 10.1007/s00520-018-4450-4..
Keywords: Cancer, Caregiving, Children/Adolescents, Electronic Health Records (EHRs), Health Information Technology (HIT), Quality of Life, Transplantation
Meyers S, Claire Simon K, Bergman-Bock S
Structured clinical documentation to improve quality and support practice-based research in headache.
The authors developed a proprietary toolkit to aid clinicians when creating clinical documentation in electronic medical records (EMRs). This toolkit will help clinicians provide discrete data and not unstructured free text which many clinicians enter into the EMR. The toolkit collects hundreds of fields of data and interprets score tests for a number of difference assessment tools for anxiety disorder, depression, migraine disability, and insomnia. The toolkit was used at 4346 initial patient visits as of April 1, 2018. The toolkit is being shared with other clinics as part of the Neurology Practice-Based Research Network.
AHRQ-funded; HS024057.
Citation: Meyers S, Claire Simon K, Bergman-Bock S .
Structured clinical documentation to improve quality and support practice-based research in headache.
Headache 2018 Sep;58(8):1211-18. doi: 10.1111/head.13348..
Keywords: Quality Improvement, Quality of Life, Tools & Toolkits, Neurological Disorders, Electronic Health Records (EHRs), Health Information Technology (HIT), Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN)