Prostate Cancer Clinical Trial

Behavioral Economics Applications to Geriatrics Leveraging EHRs R33 Trial

Summary

Investigators will evaluate clinical decision support nudges informed by behavioral science and directed at primary care clinicians. These will be used to reduce commonly misused, and potentially harmful, diagnostic and therapeutic actions that occur in the care of older adults (e.g. overtreatment of type 2 diabetes, misuse of PSA screening, misuse of urine testing in women with nonspecific symptoms or no symptoms.

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Diagnostic and therapeutic strategies misapplied to older adults can lead to increased morbidity and mortality. Despite recommendations from the American Geriatrics Society for the Choosing Wisely Initiative, there are clear examples where clinicians do not often follow best practices leading to patient harm. These include: (1) testing and treatment for asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) in older women, (2) prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening in older men, and (3) aggressive treatment with insulin or oral hypoglycemics for type 2 diabetes.

Clinical decision support nudges, informed by behavioral economics and social psychology and delivered via electronic health records (EHRs), are promising strategies to reduce the misuse of services. Behavioral economics-informed interventions influence conscious and unconscious drivers of decision making, are low cost, and can be incorporated into existing systems.

This randomized controlled trial will evaluate the effects of three clinical decision support nudges on three clinical quality measures, indicators of patient safety, and clinician attitudes.

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Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Northwestern Medicine primary care clinician who sees patients under department code of a randomized clinic

Exclusion Criteria:

Resident physicians will be excluded
Clinicians who participated in pilot study of these interventions
Clinician study investigators

Study is for people with:

Prostate Cancer

Estimated Enrollment:

371

Study ID:

NCT04289753

Recruitment Status:

Active, not recruiting

Sponsor:

Northwestern University

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Northwestern Medicine
Chicago Illinois, 60611, United States

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Study is for people with:

Prostate Cancer

Estimated Enrollment:

371

Study ID:

NCT04289753

Recruitment Status:

Active, not recruiting

Sponsor:


Northwestern University

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