The overall research objective is to evaluate the impact of implementing a reminder system for medical providers to improve TB case-finding and isoniazid preventative therapy (IPT) for adults living with HIV in western Kenya
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of implementing a clinical decision support reminder system for medical providers (i.e., nurses, clinical officers, medical officers, consultants) to improve tuberculosis case-finding and the use of isoniazid preventative therapy for adults living with HIV in western Kenya.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Enrollment
3,782
The intervention to be studied involves providing clinic-based medical care providers (e.g., nurses, clinical officers, medical officers, consultants) with patient-specific clinical reminders regarding TB that are generated from a patient's electronic medical record and based on accepted clinical algorithms for TB screening and treatment.
AMPATH
Eldoret, Kenya
Prescription of Isoniazid
Provider prescribes INH within 3 months of patient's initial encounter.
Time frame: within 3 months of initial encounter
Time to isoniazid prophylactic therapy (IPT) initiation
The time in weeks from a patient's initial encounter to the week the patient picks up the initial batch of INH from the pharmacy.
Time frame: within 3 months of initial encounter
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