ImmProve: Improving Childhood Immunization

• Sponsor: Johns Hopkins University (Other)
• Overall Status: Completed
• CT.gov ID: NCT01794286
• Collaborator: (none)
• Enrollment: 107
• Location: 1
• Arms: 2
• Duration (Months): 20
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 5.4

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

Specific Aim: To improve childhood immunization rates by utilizing automated Electronic Health Record-derived provider-specific performance feedback reports, coupled with automated Electronic Health Record-derived trigger alerts.

Hypothesis: The automated Electronic Health Record-derived provider-specific performance feedback reports will result in a 50% decrease in unimmunized children ages 0-13 years of age, when coupled with automated Electronic Health Record-derived trigger alerts, compared with trigger alerts alone.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Improve Childhood Immunization Rates	Other: Provider bulletins; Other: Trigger alerts	N/A

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Actual Enrollment: 107 participants
• Allocation: Randomized
• Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)
• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Official Title: Improving Childhood Immunization Compliance Using Electronic Health Records
• Study Start Date: Jan 1, 2010
• Actual Primary Completion Date: Sep 1, 2011
• Actual Study Completion Date: Sep 1, 2011

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Active Comparator: Control Group Trigger alerts only	Other: Trigger alerts
Experimental: Intervention Group Trigger alerts + provider bulletins	Other: Provider bulletins; Other: Trigger alerts

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. Receipt of missing immunization [Time to event analyses, with events measured across 7 quarters (21 months)]

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 28 Years to 40 Years
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Inclusion Criteria:

• all pediatric resident providers in Harriet Lane Clinic at Johns Hopkins University

Exclusion Criteria:

• none

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Harriet Lane Clinic	Baltimore	Maryland	United States	21287

Sponsors and Collaborators

• Johns Hopkins University

Investigators

None specified.

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• Responsible Party: Marlene Miller, Professor, Johns Hopkins University
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01794286
• Other Study ID Numbers: RC1LM010512
• First Posted: Feb 18, 2013
• Last Update Posted: Feb 18, 2013
• Last Verified: Feb 1, 2013

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Feb 18, 2013