Clinical and Economic Impact of an Electronic Medical Record Interfaced Decision Support System for Minimizing Severe Drug-Drug Interactions

Leumit Health Services715 enrolled

Overview

Leumit Health Services, an health maintenance organization operating in Israel, will incorporate a web-based, decision support system for handling drug-drug interactions and drug information, termed DDI+. the investigators hypothesize that implementing such a system will reduce health-care expenditures (e.g., hospital admissions, referrals to ERs, Imaging procedures).

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

715

Conditions

Healthcare

Interventions

DDI+OTHER

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Number of chronic concomitant drugs ≥5 Exclusion Criteria: * Patients diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, and/or viral hepatitis B or C.

Locations (1)

Leumit Health Services

Tel Aviv, Israel

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Hospital Admissions

Time frame: up to 12 months post initiation

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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