PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Julie Foucher-Urcuyo
AU  - David Longworth
AU  - Michael Roizen
AU  - Bo Hu
AU  - Michael B. Rothberg
TI  - Patient-Entered Wellness Data and Tailored Electronic Recommendations Increase Preventive Care
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2017.03.160231
DP  - 2017 May 01
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
PG  - 350--361
VI  - 30
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/30/3/350.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/30/3/350.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med2017 May 01; 30
AB  - Purpose: We investigated whether a tool using patient-entered wellness data to generate tailored electronic recommendations improved preventive care delivery.Methods: We conducted a mixed-methods retrospective study of primary care encounters utilizing an Integrated Wellness Tool with a matched-comparison before-and-after study design. Encounters took place at a single clinic within the Cleveland Clinic Health System. The primary outcome was preventive orders placed. Index patients were matched, based on propensity scores, with comparison patients seen in the same clinic several months earlier.Results: Five providers conducted 863 patient encounters using the tool during the study period. During encounters using the tool, providers placed more orders for smoking cessation programs (2.4 vs 0.5%, P < .01), lifestyle medicine (2.4 vs 0%, P < .01) and psychology (2.3 vs 1.0%, P = .04) consults, online nutrition (2.4 vs 1.4%, P = .04) and stress management (5.5 vs 0.9%, P < .01) programs, spirometry (5.9 vs 1.7%, P < .01) and polysomnography (6.3 vs 1.3%, P < .01) tests, and antidepressant (7.2 vs 3.9%, P = .01) and hypnotic (2.2 vs 0.7%, P = .01) medications when compared with matched encounters.Conclusions: Patients are willing to enter lifestyle data, and these data influence provider orders.