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. 2021 Apr 16;10(4):e24818. doi: 10.2196/24818

Table 3.

Eligibility criteria.

Entity Criteria
Participating sites

Inclusion
  • Site hematologist or sickle cell disease provider willing to write an IPPa for patients meeting eligibility criteria

  • Informatics resources available to support all aspects of the intervention

  • Placement of the E-IPPb that is accessible to both the provider and patient

  • Ability to support text messaging to patients for survey administration

  • Support from emergency medicine and nursing leadership to agree to follow the IPP unless there is a contraindication at the time of the emergency department vaso-occlusive episode visit


Exclusion
  • None

Patient participants

Inclusion
  • Confirmed sickle cell disease diagnosis, defined as supported by documentation in the medical record of a positive test for 1 of the following genotypes: Hb SS, Hb SC, Hb Sβ-thalassemia, Hb SO, Hb SD, Hb SG, Hb SE, or Hb SF. If no medical record is available, the enrolling site will conduct its own laboratory test as confirmation

  • English speaking

  • Age 18-45 years (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute grant requirement)

  • Access to either an Android or iOS cellular or mobile smartphone, with access to text messaging and internet

  • At least 1 vaso-occlusive episode visit to the participating site’s emergency department within the past 90 days prior to enrollment

  • At least 1 visit at the study site sickle cell disease clinic within the past 12 months

  • Willing and cognitively able to give informed consent


Exclusion
  • Site hematologist or sickle cell disease provider states patient should not have a protocol or should not be administered opioids

Provider participants

Inclusion
  • All emergency physicians, nurses, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners who work in the study emergency department will have access to the E-IPPs as routine practice and physicians are asked to complete baseline surveys at enrollment for research purposes


Exclusion
  • None

aIPP: individualized pain plan.

aE-IPP: electronic health record–embedded individualized pain plan.