How to Improve Patient Compliance in Dyslipidemia Diagnosis (via Medscape - medscapemm). Dr. George Lundberg discusses whether system-initiated patient alerts or patient-initiated requests for support or no intervention made a difference in screening and intervention.
Excerpt: In the journal Circulation in 2008, investigators from The Netherlands report a randomized controlled trial of many tens of thousands of patients under the care of general practitioners. The trial tested whether, with an electronic health record, system-initiated patient alerts or patient-initiated requests for support or no intervention made a difference in likelihood of screening and intervention for dyslipidemia over a 12-month period. Results: In the electronic alert group, 65% of patients requiring screening were screened; 35% in the on-demand group and only 25% in the control group. The patient-alerting version of this clinical decision support system worked big time.
