Electronic Health Records for Health Promotion

NCT00142077 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 1 R01 CDC 000065-01
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 700
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether personally controlled electronic health records can be used for health promotion in a workplace setting.

Conditions

Influenza

Keywords

Influenza; Electronic health record; Behavior modification

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• - Rate of influenza immunization among subjects

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• Change in knowledge, attitutes, and beliefs regarding influenza and influenza immunization.

• Changes in health behaviors around influenza (e.g. hand washing and cough etiquette).

• General health outcomes related to respiratory illnesses (e.g. number of influenza-like illnesses, number of physician visits, number of missed work days).

• Rate of influenza immunization among subject household members.

Interventions

Electronic health record and messaging system DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• The subject is a part-time or full-time employee at a major corporation.
• The subject is eighteen years of age or older.
• The subject is comfortable reading and writing in English.
• The subject has reliable internet access at home, at school, or at work.
• The subject uses email regularly (i.e. at least once every 2 days)
• The subject does not have a known allergy to chicken eggs or a history of a severe reaction to an influenza vaccination in the past.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Boston Children's Hospital: lead
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Children's Hospital Boston

Boston, Massachusetts, 02116, United States

Location

Related Publications (9)

• Nichol KL. Cost-benefit analysis of a strategy to vaccinate healthy working adults against influenza. Arch Intern Med. 2001 Mar 12;161(5):749-59. doi: 10.1001/archinte.161.5.749.

  PMID: 11231710 BACKGROUND

• Keech M, Scott AJ, Ryan PJ. The impact of influenza and influenza-like illness on productivity and healthcare resource utilization in a working population. Occup Med (Lond). 1998 Feb;48(2):85-90. doi: 10.1093/occmed/48.2.85.

  PMID: 9614766 BACKGROUND

• Harper SA, Fukuda K, Uyeki TM, Cox NJ, Bridges CB; Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Prevention and control of influenza. Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). MMWR Recomm Rep. 2005 Jul 29;54(RR-8):1-40.

  PMID: 16086456 BACKGROUND

• Bridges CB, Thompson WW, Meltzer MI, Reeve GR, Talamonti WJ, Cox NJ, Lilac HA, Hall H, Klimov A, Fukuda K. Effectiveness and cost-benefit of influenza vaccination of healthy working adults: A randomized controlled trial. JAMA. 2000 Oct 4;284(13):1655-63. doi: 10.1001/jama.284.13.1655.

  PMID: 11015795 BACKGROUND

• Mandl KD, Szolovits P, Kohane IS. Public standards and patients' control: how to keep electronic medical records accessible but private. BMJ. 2001 Feb 3;322(7281):283-7. doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7281.283. No abstract available.

  PMID: 11157533 BACKGROUND

• Riva A, Mandl KD, Oh DH, Nigrin DJ, Butte A, Szolovits P, Kohane IS. The personal internetworked notary and guardian. Int J Med Inform. 2001 Jun;62(1):27-40. doi: 10.1016/s1386-5056(00)00136-2.

  PMID: 11340004 BACKGROUND

• Mandl KD, Overhage JM, Wagner MM, Lober WB, Sebastiani P, Mostashari F, Pavlin JA, Gesteland PH, Treadwell T, Koski E, Hutwagner L, Buckeridge DL, Aller RD, Grannis S. Implementing syndromic surveillance: a practical guide informed by the early experience. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2004 Mar-Apr;11(2):141-50. doi: 10.1197/jamia.M1356. Epub 2003 Nov 21.

  PMID: 14633933 BACKGROUND

• Heffernan R, Mostashari F, Das D, Karpati A, Kulldorff M, Weiss D. Syndromic surveillance in public health practice, New York City. Emerg Infect Dis. 2004 May;10(5):858-64. doi: 10.3201/eid1005.030646.

  PMID: 15200820 BACKGROUND

• Bourgeois FT, Simons WW, Olson K, Brownstein JS, Mandl KD. Evaluation of influenza prevention in the workplace using a personally controlled health record: randomized controlled trial. J Med Internet Res. 2008 Mar 14;10(1):e5. doi: 10.2196/jmir.984.

  PMID: 18343794 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Influenza, Human

Interventions

Electronic Health Records

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Respiratory Tract Infections; Infections; Orthomyxoviridae Infections; RNA Virus Infections; Virus Diseases; Respiratory Tract Diseases

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Medical Records Systems, Computerized; Medical Records; Records; Data Collection; Epidemiologic Methods; Investigative Techniques; Organization and Administration; Health Services Administration; Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms; Quality of Health Care; Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation; Public Health; Environment and Public Health

Study Officials

• Kenneth D Mandl, MD, MPH

  Boston Children's Hospital

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 31, 2005
• First Posted: September 2, 2005
• Study Start: October 1, 2005
• Study Completion: May 1, 2006
• Last Updated: April 5, 2007

Record last verified: 2006-01

Locations

US (1)