RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Patient-Entered Wellness Data and Tailored Electronic Recommendations Increase Preventive Care
JF The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
JO J Am Board Fam Med
FD American Board of Family Medicine
SP 350
OP 361
DO 10.3122/jabfm.2017.03.160231
VO 30
IS 3
A1 Julie Foucher-Urcuyo
A1 David Longworth
A1 Michael Roizen
A1 Bo Hu
A1 Michael B. Rothberg
YR 2017
UL http://www.jabfm.org/content/30/3/350.abstract
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.