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Administrative data

NCT number NCT05707364
Other study ID # EH22-450
Secondary ID
Status Enrolling by invitation
Phase
First received
Last updated
Start date February 8, 2023
Est. completion date May 1, 2025

Study information

Verified date March 2024
Source NorthShore University HealthSystem
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

This is a research study evaluating the implementation of a clinic workflow to encourage pre-visit laboratory testing, such as blood work. The purpose of this research is to understand provider and patient satisfaction with clinic workflows to support pre-visit laboratory tests (blood work) for annual physical and wellness visits. Providers and staff at participating sites will be approached to fill out an anonymous survey regarding experiences with implementation of the pre-visit laboratory testing workflow. Additional data from NorthShore's Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) will be collected to assess the pre-lab test rate before implementation, at 6 months, and 12 months, in addition to provider and staff time efficiencies and patient satisfaction as assessed by surveys.


Description:

This is a research study about implementing a clinic workflow to encourage pre-visit laboratory testing, such as blood work. Resulting labs is a critical yet time consuming task for primary care clinicians. Ideal and timely management of both normal and abnormal lab results is best done when the patient and clinician are face to face in an office visit. This allows patients to ask questions and clinicians to most efficiently make recommendations, adjust or start medications, or order follow up testing. There is a notable and measurable time commitment to the in-basket burden of sharing lab results via a patient portal or phone calls, advising or counseling on these results and answering subsequent patient inquiries. Furthermore, in a consumer-centric health system and one in which routine blood tests are ordered for employment/insurance purposes and peace of mind, over-ordering of lab testing and the subsequent associated anxiety of out of range results are both costly to the patient and the health care system. Going "upstream" of the in-basket work associated with lab results requires a workflow that maximizes staff time, emphasizes patient engagement and understanding and most efficiently uses clinician time to guide good patient care. The aims of this research study include to measure the feasibility of implementing a pre-visit lab testing clinic workflow, which involves clinicians using the electronic medical record (EMR) to indicate preferences that upcoming labs be completed prior to their scheduled physical so that results can be discussed during the office visit, and to study the efficacy of a pre-visit lab workflow as it relates to clinician in-basket time, staff time, patient satisfaction, provider satisfaction, and frequency of patient encounters post visit. The study has multiple components to test these aims. Approximately 4 sites will be engaged to implement the study workflow for all prospective patients seen at the designated offices. Site physicians and their clinic staff will be invited to attend a Lunch & Learn to discuss the intent to implement pre-visit lab testing and confirm the details of the clinic workflow. Data will be reviewed for progress reports and modifications to the clinical workflow can be made at that time to adjust for implementation barriers. Longitudinal data from a brief survey will be collected from clinical staff (e.g. providers, practice managers, nurses, medical assistants, etc.) at three time points: prior to study implementation, at 6-months of implementation, and at 1-year of implementation. Practices will act as their own controls with their patients with labs resulted on/post-visit compared to those resulted pre-visit. Data sources will include EDW data, Press-Ganey scores, and physician surveys to assess time burden and satisfaction with workflow. A secondary study component will involve anonymous patient surveys collected at every annual physical or wellness visit for the duration of the study. Additionally, patient data will be collected from existing sources (EPIC/Clarity, Press-Ganey, Enterprise Data Warehouse, billing, etc.) to assess the effectiveness of the workflow as it relates to patient understanding of their care.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Enrolling by invitation
Enrollment 301000
Est. completion date May 1, 2025
Est. primary completion date May 1, 2025
Accepts healthy volunteers
Gender All
Age group 18 Years and older
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: - Aged 18 or older. - Patients must have had an annual physical/ wellness visit within 30 days of completing the survey. - Patient/ providers willing to complete the survey. Exclusion Criteria: • Participants younger than 18 years of age.

Study Design


Intervention

Behavioral:
Pre-visit Lab Workflow
Based on buy-in from the providers/staff one or both of the practices below will be introduced into the clinic workflow to order pre-visit labs. All procedures are within the standard of care, only the order of operations is being changed. After sharing lab results with patient from the most recent routine physical, physician records labs for the next calendar year in EMR. Prior to appointment, Medical Assistant (MA) will review notes and orders to setup pre-visit labs. Patient contacted to complete labs prior to the scheduled routine physical. Resulted labs are triaged based on urgency. After Visit Summary used to communicate about labs and surveys.

Locations

Country Name City State
United States NorthShore University HealthSystem Evanston Illinois

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
NorthShore University HealthSystem American Medical Association

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (2)

American Medical Association. 10 steps to pre-visit planning that can produce big savings. Sept 4, 2015. https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/sustainability/10-steps-pre-visit-planning-can-producebig-savings

Sinsky CA, Sinsky TA, Rajcevich E. Putting Pre-Visit Planning Into Practice. Fam Pract Manag. 2015 Nov-Dec;22(6):34-8. No abstract available. — View Citation

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Change from baseline pre-lab test rate Count of pre-lab tests completed out of the total number of annual physical/wellness visits to participating providers to participating providers 3 months prior to study implementation and then ongoing to month 24 to calculate monthly proportions
Secondary Change from baseline clinician time spent resulting labs Time questions asked in provider questionnaire baseline (prior to study implementation), at 6-months of implementation, and at 1-year of implementation
Secondary Change from baseline provider satisfaction Agreement metrics (1= Strongly disagree to 5= Strongly agreed) asked in provider questionnaire. Higher scores indicate a better outcome. baseline (prior to study implementation), at 6-months of implementation, and at 1-year of implementation
Secondary Change from baseline patient satisfaction Agreement metrics (1= Strongly disagree to 5= Strongly agreed) asked in provider questionnaire. Higher scores indicate a better outcome. baseline, 1 year, and 2 year (i.e. annually at every wellness/ annual physical visit)
Secondary Change from baseline frequency of patient encounters post visit Enterprise Data Warehouse data pull 3 months prior to study implementation and then ongoing to month 24 to calculate monthly proportions
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