Table 4.
First author, year | Study design | Description of technology | Sample size | Selected outcomes |
Allen, 2017 [24] | RCTa | Culturally sensitive team model using an electronic diabetes dashboard providing alerts and reports for each patient regarding clinical and behavioral factors and social distress. | 399 Latino patients | Social distress score decrease of 0.6 (controls) vs 1.6 (intervention) over 6 months (P=.01). |
Duquaine, 2015 [75] | Observational cohort | CDSb for tobacco use and interventions for smoking cessation; quarterly communications with practice-specific and overall program performance. | 19 clinics treating low-income and Medicaid patients | Successful implementation at all sites. Change in EHRc documentation of prevalence and cessation rates (NRd). |
Fiks, 2015 [85] | Open-label nonrandomized | Quarterly feedback reports summarizing personal, practice, and network rates of missed HPVe vaccine opportunities. | 227 PCPsf | 5.7% (95% CI 3.8-7.7) increase in HPV vaccination compared with controls. |
Kapoor, 2018 [127] | Observational cohort | Emailed report of the proportion of atrial fibrillation patients receiving anticoagulation therapy compared to peers plus EHR message 1 day before visits with anticoagulation eligible patients. | 5406 patients | Providers reviewed emails (45%) and EHR messages (96%), demonstrating feasibility. No change in the percentage of patients receiving anticoagulation therapy compared with controls after 3 months. |
Zimmerman, 2017 [255]; Nowalk, 2016 [174]; Zimmerman, 2017 [257]; Lin, 2016 [145]; Zimmerman, 2017 [256] | RCT and pre-post | 4 Pillars Immunization Toolkit and Practice Transformation Program. Web-based dashboard providing and tracking strategies for increasing practice vaccination rates, including EHR prompts, digital outreach, and standing order programs. |
25 clinics [255]; 24 clinics [174]; 11 clinics [257]; 25 clinics [145]; 22 clinics [256] | 2.7% to 10.2% statistically significant increases in vaccination rates for intervention and control sites during RCT studies. −1.9% to 17.1% statistically significant increases in vaccination rates for active intervention groups during year 2 of the pre-post study. |
aRCT: randomized controlled trial.
bCDS: clinical decision support.
cEHR: electronic health record.
dNR: not reported.
eHPV: human papillomavirus.
fPCP: primary care physician.