Using a Clinical Decision Support Tool to Increase Chlamydia Screening Across a Large Primary Care Pediatric Network.

Using a Clinical Decision Support Tool to Increase Chlamydia Screening Across a Large Primary Care Pediatric Network.

Karas David; Sondike Stephen; Fitzgibbon James; Redding Mark; Brown Miraides

Clinical pediatrics

2018

2018-12

We aim to demonstrate increased chlamydia screening across a large pediatric network using an electronic health record-based intervention. We developed a pop-up notification that alerted providers that chlamydia screening was recommended during a well adolescent visit, when appropriate. We compared chlamydia screening rates before and after the implementation of the alert. The screening rate for chlamydia improved from 2.40% in the year before intervention to 5.01% in the year after intervention ( P \textless .01). In conclusion, an electronic health record intervention was successfully able to significantly increase rates of chlamydia screening across a large pediatric network.

Adolescence; adolescent; chlamydia; Chlamydia Infections – Diagnosis; Clinical – Utilization; clinical decision support; Decision Support Systems; electronic health record; Electronic Health Records; Health Screening; Human; Office Visits; Pediatric Care; Primary Health Care; screening

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