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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Feb 3.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Med Inform. 2017 Oct 23;114:121–129. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2017.10.014

Table 2.

Patient records and encounters analyzed.

Condition #charts Encounter type # Encounters documented with RSTs
Total May June July
Hypertension 46 Pre-intervention 149 NA
Post-intervention 142 69 (49%) 31 (57%) 23 (53%) 15 (33%)
Diabetes 19 Pre-intervention 72 NA
Post-intervention 59 30 (51%) 13 (54%) 10 (56%) 7 (41%)
Chronic respiratory diseases 22 Pre-intervention 61 NA
Post-intervention 63 42 (67%) 14 (70%) 16 (73%) 12 (57%)

A total of 70 patient charts were sampled for the analysis. Of these, 49 were diagnosed with hypertension, 22 with diabetes and 24 with chronic respiratory diseases. Each patient had, on average, 3.0, 3.3 and 2.5 encounters in the pre-intervention period, and 2.9, 2.7 and 2.6 encounters in the post-intervention period for HTN, DM and CRD, respectively. RST use in the post-intervention period decreased over the three months in the charts sampled. However the total number of templates used did not reflect this (see text).