Effect of an Automated Patient Dashboard Using Active Choice and Peer Comparison Performance Feedback to Physicians on Statin Prescribing: The PRESCRIBE Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Statins are not prescribed to approximately 50% of patients who could benefit from them.

Objective

To evaluate the effectiveness of an automated patient dashboard using active choice framing with and without peer comparison feedback on performance to nudge primary care physicians (PCPs) to increase guideline-concordant statin prescribing.

Design, setting, and participants

This 3-arm cluster randomized clinical trial was conducted from February 21, 2017, to April 21, 2017, at 32 practice sites in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Participants included 96 PCPs and 4774 patients not previously receiving statin therapy. Data were analyzed from April 25, 2017, to June 16, 2017.

Interventions

Primary care physicians in the 2 intervention arms were emailed a lin

SUBMITTER: Patel MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324300 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature