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1 to 3 of 3 Research Studies DisplayedMeyers 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)
Lambert-Kerzner A, Ford KL, Hammermeister KE
Assessment of attitudes towards future implementation of the "Surgical Risk Preoperative Assessment System" (SURPAS) tool: a pilot survey among patients, surgeons, and hospital administrators.
Implementation of the Surgical Risk Preoperative Assessment System (SURPAS), an innovative real time, universal, preoperative tool providing individualized risk assessment, may enhance informed consent and reduce adverse outcomes. To ensure optimal development and implementation of SURPAS the study authors performed an in-depth pre-implementation evaluation of SURPAS at an academic tertiary referral center in Colorado.
AHRQ-funded; HS024124.
Citation: Lambert-Kerzner A, Ford KL, Hammermeister KE .
Assessment of attitudes towards future implementation of the "Surgical Risk Preoperative Assessment System" (SURPAS) tool: a pilot survey among patients, surgeons, and hospital administrators.
Patient Saf Surg 2018 Jun 4;12:12. doi: 10.1186/s13037-018-0159-z..
Keywords: Health Information Technology (HIT), Quality Improvement, Risk, Surgery, Tools & Toolkits
Ye S, Leppin AL, Chan AY
An informatics approach to implement support for shared decision making for primary prevention statin therapy.
The study authors designed an informatics decision-support tool to facilitate use of the Mayo Clinic Statin Choice decision aid at the point-of-care and evaluated its impact. The investigators found that implementation of a point-of-care decision-support tool increased the usage of decision aids for primary prevention statin therapy. This effect does not appear to be mediated by any concomitant changes in physician attitude toward shared decision making.
AHRQ-funded; HS025198.
Citation: Ye S, Leppin AL, Chan AY .
An informatics approach to implement support for shared decision making for primary prevention statin therapy.
MDM Policy Pract 2018 Jan-Jun;3(1):2381468318777752. doi: 10.1177/2381468318777752..
Keywords: Decision Making, Health Information Technology (HIT), Medication, Prevention, Tools & Toolkits