A Clinical Reminder Order Check Intervention to Improve Guideline-concordant Imaging Practices for Men With Prostate Cancer: A Pilot Study

Shannon E. Ciprut; Matthew D. Kelly; Dawn Walter; Renee Hoffman; Daniel J. Becker; Stacy Loeb; Erica Sedlander; Craig T. Tenner; Scott E. Sherman; Steven B. Zeliadt; Danil V. Makarov

doi:10.1016/j.urology.2020.05.101

A Clinical Reminder Order Check Intervention to Improve Guideline-concordant Imaging Practices for Men With Prostate Cancer: A Pilot Study

Shannon E. Ciprut, Matthew D. Kelly, Dawn Walter, Renee Hoffman, Daniel J. Becker, Stacy Loeb, Erica Sedlander, Craig T. Tenner, Scott E. Sherman, Steven B. Zeliadt, Danil V. Makarov

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Objective: To understand how to potentially improve inappropriate prostate cancer imaging rates we used National Comprehensive Cancer Network's guidelines to design and implement a Clinical Reminder Order Check (CROC) that alerts ordering providers of potentially inappropriate imaging orders in real-time based on patient features of men diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer. Methods: We implemented the CROC at VA New York Harbor Healthcare System from April 2, 2015 to November 15, 2017. We then used VA administrative claims from the VA's Corporate Data Warehouse to analyze imaging rates among men with low-risk prostate cancer at VA New York Harbor Healthcare System before and after CROC implementation. We also collected and cataloged provider responses in response to overriding the CROC in qualitative analysis. Results Fifty seven percent: (117/205) of Veterans before CROC installation and 73% (61/83) of Veterans post-intervention with low-risk prostate cancer received guideline-concordant care. Conclusion: While the decrease in inappropriate imaging during our study window was almost certainly due to many factors, a Computerized Patient Record System-based CROC intervention is likely associated with at least moderate improvement in guideline-concordant imaging practices for Veterans with low-risk prostate cancer.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	113-119
Number of pages	7
Journal	Urology
Volume	145
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.urology.2020.05.101
State	Published - Nov 2020

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Ciprut, S. E., Kelly, M. D., Walter, D., Hoffman, R., Becker, D. J., Loeb, S., Sedlander, E., Tenner, C. T., Sherman, S. E., Zeliadt, S. B., & Makarov, D. V. (2020). A Clinical Reminder Order Check Intervention to Improve Guideline-concordant Imaging Practices for Men With Prostate Cancer: A Pilot Study. Urology, 145, 113-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.urology.2020.05.101

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