CompletedNot Applicable

Behavioral Economics Applications to Geriatrics Leveraging EHRs R33 Trial

United States37,134 participantsStarted 2020-09-01

Plain-language summary

Investigators will evaluate clinical decision support nudges informed by behavioral science and directed at primary care clinicians. These will be used to reduce commonly misused, and potentially harmful, diagnostic and therapeutic actions that occur in the care of older adults (e.g. overtreatment of type 2 diabetes, misuse of PSA screening, misuse of urine testing in women with nonspecific symptoms or no symptoms.

Who can participate

Age range18 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Northwestern Medicine primary care clinician who sees patients under department code of a randomized clinic Exclusion Criteria: * Resident physicians will be excluded * Clinicians who participated in pilot study of these interventions * Clinician study investigators

What they're measuring

PSA Screening in Older Men

Timeframe: 18 months

Urine Testing for Non-specific Reasons

Timeframe: 18 months

Diabetes Overtreatment in the Elderly

Timeframe: 18 months

Trial details

NCT IDNCT04289753

SponsorNorthwestern University

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2022-03-01

Results submitted2023-06-01

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