Integrating Targeted MedlinePlus Health Prescriptions Into Clinic Practice Workflow
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The specific aim of this proposed project is to implement a standard process for integrating MedlinePlus health information prescriptions into the clinic workflow.
Hypothesis 1: Individuals in the intervention group who receive tailored email health information with provider selected MedlinePlus links and added commentary for patient specific conditions will be more likely to seek information / use MedlinePlus compared with individuals in the control group.
Hypothesis 2: Individuals in the intervention group who receive tailored email health information with provider selected MedlinePlus links and added commentary for patient specific conditions will be more satisfied with the information received compared with individuals in the control group.
Condition | Intervention |
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Allergic Rhinitis (Disorder) Asthma Back Pain Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy Bursitis Depression Anxiety Diabetes Mellitus Esophageal Reflux HIV Infections Hyperlipidemia Hypertension Insomnia Irritable Bowel Syndrome Obesity Osteoporosis (Senile) Shoulder Pain Sinusitis Symptomatic Menopause Urinary Incontinence Urinary Tract Infection Vaginitis |
Other: Health Information Prescription - MedlinePlus link |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Non-Randomized Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Open Label |
Official Title: | Integrating Targeted MedlinePlus Health Prescriptions Into Clinic Practice Workflow |
- health information experiences of the patient [ Time Frame: approximately one week following clinic appointment ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- clinician feedback on the health information prescription process [ Time Frame: midpoint and conclusion of the study ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Estimated Enrollment: | 400 |
Study Start Date: | February 2008 |
Study Completion Date: | March 2009 |
Primary Completion Date: | March 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
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No Intervention: 1. Control
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Experimental: 2. Health Information Prescription
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Other: Health Information Prescription - MedlinePlus link
The patient education materials will consist of approximately 21 topics representing some of the most common conditions seen at the Fairview Internal Medicine Clinic. Twenty-one e-mails, one per topic, will be created by Fairview physicians to be distributed to selected clinic patients. There will be a standard e-mail for each condition with a specific link to MedlinePlus. To create the targeted health information topic email, the physician will review the information available at MedlinePlus. The physician will then select several links of appropriate information and, using the template, will write a short annotation on each link.
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Detailed Description:
Providing patient education in an outpatient practice can be challenging in part due to the variety of patient medical conditions and the quantity of materials needed. Increasingly, electronic resources such as those found on the internet have the potential to provide easily accessible needed information. However, clinicians do not have the time to assemble a list of websites for their patients and even if they did, the quality of information varies greatly and would require close screening. MedlinePlus is a free National Library of Medicine sponsored website that features health information on hundreds of conditions with all information carefully screened for quality standards by expert librarians. We will conduct a pilot study to seamlessly integrate provider-customized MedlinePlus health education prescriptions for specific conditions into the normal clinic workflow to motivate patients to access and expand their use of MedlinePlus to benefit their health. As HIV prevention/education is very important, we will include the HIV clinic as well as a general internal medicine clinic.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
- To be included in the study population, patients must also be seen by their physician for one of the 21 target health conditions (Allergic Rhinitis, Asthma, Back Pain, Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy, Bursitis, Depression/Anxiety, Diabetes Mellitus, Esophageal Reflux, HIV, Hyperlipidemia, Hypertension, Insomnia, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Obesity, Osteoporosis (senile), Shoulder Pain, Sinusitis, Symptomatic Menopause, Urinary Incontinence, Urinary Tract Infection, Vaginitis) and be willing to provide an email address.
- Patients will be included only once.
- All patients in the intervention and the control group will receive the survey.
- All physicians and staff at the Fairview Clinic and HIV Clinic will be invited to complete the physician or staff survey.
Exclusion Criteria:
- No email address
United States, Missouri | |
University of Missouri, Department of Internal Medicine | |
Columbia, Missouri, United States, 65211 |
Principal Investigator: | Robert Hodge, MD | University of Missouri-Columbia |
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Responsible Party: | Robert Hodge, University of Missouri |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00634608 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | HHSN276200700263P |
Study First Received: | February 22, 2008 |
Last Updated: | March 1, 2011 |
Health Authority: | United States: Institutional Review Board |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Anxiety Disorders Asthma Back Pain Prostatic Hyperplasia Bursitis Depression Depressive Disorder Diabetes Mellitus Esophageal Diseases Gastroesophageal Reflux Hyperlipidemias Hypertension Hypertrophy |
Irritable Bowel Syndrome Obesity Osteoporosis Rhinitis Shoulder Pain Sinusitis Urinary Incontinence Urinary Tract Infections Vaginitis Lentivirus Infections Retroviridae Infections RNA Virus Infections Virus Diseases Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral Sexually Transmitted Diseases |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 03, 2013