Epividian / AHF: Positive Pathways - HIV Retention in Care

NCT04147832 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: Pro00037143
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 10,521
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a clinical decision support system (CDSS) combined with enhanced patient contact to retain HIV+ patients in care with AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Specifically, the study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of having the patient's primary caregiver (or dedicated case manager) telephone the patient when the patient is identified as a significant risk to loss of follow-up (at-risk patients) based upon pre-defined criteria. The secondary objective Gain a better understanding about the implementation of the study's procedures in clinical practice by evaluating survey responses delivered to participating healthcare providers and AHF staff members engaging with the study's intervention.

Conditions

HIV/AIDS

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Rate of Kept Appointments

  Pre and post-baseline rate of patients who attended their scheduled office visits.

  16 months, 01-Nov-2019 to 30-Apr-2021

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Viral suppression

  16 months, 01-Nov-2019 to 30-Apr-2021

• Ranked Scoring of Implementation effectiveness

  16 months, 01-Nov-2019 to 30-Apr-2021

Study Arms (1)

HIV-1

HIV-1+, males, females, transgender, ≥18 years of age, seen at any AHF clinic within the last two years and whose care is documented in the AHF electronic health records system.

Other: Alert to provider

Interventions

Alert to provider OTHER

Provider will receive an alert of sub-optimal patient attendance using 4 rules.

HIV-1

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Patients with HIV-1 diagnosis who are in care at AHF and seen at least once in the last 2 years.

You may qualify if:

• HIV-1+
• years old or older
• Any sex
• Seen at least once in a US-based AHF clinic in the last 2 years with care documented in the EHR

You may not qualify if:

• Patients known to have left the practice
• Patients who choose not to be contacted about their care via telephone

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Epividian: lead
• AIDS Healthcare Foundation: collaborator
• ViiV Healthcare: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

AHF

Los Angeles, California, 90028, United States

Location

Related Publications (27)

• Kazanjian P. UNAIDS 90-90-90 Campaign to End the AIDS Epidemic in Historic Perspective. Milbank Q. 2017 Jun;95(2):408-439. doi: 10.1111/1468-0009.12265.

  PMID: 28589602 BACKGROUND

• Bakken S. An informatics infrastructure is essential for evidence-based practice. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2001 May-Jun;8(3):199-201. doi: 10.1136/jamia.2001.0080199.

  PMID: 11320064 BACKGROUND

• Bates DW, Gawande AA. Improving safety with information technology. N Engl J Med. 2003 Jun 19;348(25):2526-34. doi: 10.1056/NEJMsa020847. No abstract available.

  PMID: 12815139 BACKGROUND

• Bakken S, Cimino JJ, Hripcsak G. Promoting patient safety and enabling evidence-based practice through informatics. Med Care. 2004 Feb;42(2 Suppl):II49-56. doi: 10.1097/01.mlr.0000109125.00113.f4.

  PMID: 14734942 BACKGROUND

• Jenders RA, Osheroff JA, Sittig DF, Pifer EA, Teich JM. Recommendations for clinical decision support deployment: synthesis of a roundtable of medical directors of information systems. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2007 Oct 11;2007:359-63.

  PMID: 18693858 BACKGROUND

• Schulman J, Kuperman GJ, Kharbanda A, Kaushal R. Discovering how to think about a hospital patient information system by struggling to evaluate it: a committee's journal. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2007 Sep-Oct;14(5):537-41. doi: 10.1197/jamia.M2436. Epub 2007 Jun 28.

  PMID: 17600095 BACKGROUND

• Middleton B, Hammond WE, Brennan PF, Cooper GF. Accelerating U.S. EHR adoption: how to get there from here. recommendations based on the 2004 ACMI retreat. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2005 Jan-Feb;12(1):13-9. doi: 10.1197/jamia.M1669. Epub 2004 Oct 18.

  PMID: 15492028 BACKGROUND

• Garg AX, Adhikari NK, McDonald H, Rosas-Arellano MP, Devereaux PJ, Beyene J, Sam J, Haynes RB. Effects of computerized clinical decision support systems on practitioner performance and patient outcomes: a systematic review. JAMA. 2005 Mar 9;293(10):1223-38. doi: 10.1001/jama.293.10.1223.

  PMID: 15755945 BACKGROUND

• Poon EG, Wald J, Bates DW, Middleton B, Kuperman GJ, Gandhi TK. Supporting patient care beyond the clinical encounter: three informatics innovations from partners health care. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2003;2003:1072.

  PMID: 14728575 BACKGROUND

• Bakken S, Roberts WD, Chen E, Dilone J, Lee NJ, Mendonca E, Markatou M. PDA-based informatics strategies for tobacco use screening and smoking cessation management: a case study. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2007;129(Pt 2):1447-51.

  PMID: 17911954 BACKGROUND

• Bindoff IK, Tenni PC, Peterson GM, Kang BH, Jackson SL. Development of an intelligent decision support system for medication review. J Clin Pharm Ther. 2007 Feb;32(1):81-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2710.2007.00801.x.

  PMID: 17286791 BACKGROUND

• Dickey J, Girard DE, Geheb MA, Cassel CK. Using systems-based practice to integrate education and clinical services. Med Teach. 2004 Aug;26(5):428-34. doi: 10.1080/01421590410001730967.

  PMID: 15369883 BACKGROUND

• Grant RW, Wald JS, Poon EG, Schnipper JL, Gandhi TK, Volk LA, Middleton B. Design and implementation of a web-based patient portal linked to an ambulatory care electronic health record: patient gateway for diabetes collaborative care. Diabetes Technol Ther. 2006 Oct;8(5):576-86. doi: 10.1089/dia.2006.8.576.

  PMID: 17037972 BACKGROUND

• Hsieh TC, Kuperman GJ, Jaggi T, Hojnowski-Diaz P, Fiskio J, Williams DH, Bates DW, Gandhi TK. Characteristics and consequences of drug allergy alert overrides in a computerized physician order entry system. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2004 Nov-Dec;11(6):482-91. doi: 10.1197/jamia.M1556. Epub 2004 Aug 6.

  PMID: 15298998 BACKGROUND

• Lester WT, Ashburner JM, Grant RW, Chueh HC, Barry MJ, Atlas SJ. Mammography FastTrack: an intervention to facilitate reminders for breast cancer screening across a heterogeneous multi-clinic primary care network. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2009 Mar-Apr;16(2):187-95. doi: 10.1197/jamia.M2813. Epub 2008 Dec 11.

  PMID: 19074304 BACKGROUND

• Lester WT, Grant R, Barnett GO, Chueh H. Facilitated lipid management using interactive e-mail: preliminary results of a randomized controlled trial. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2004;107(Pt 1):232-6.

  PMID: 15360809 BACKGROUND

• Lester WT, Grant RW, Barnett GO, Chueh HC. Randomized controlled trial of an informatics-based intervention to increase statin prescription for secondary prevention of coronary disease. J Gen Intern Med. 2006 Jan;21(1):22-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2005.00268.x.

  PMID: 16423119 BACKGROUND

• Cowen M, Halasyamani LK, McMurtrie D, Hoffman D, Polley T, Alexander JA. Organizational structure for addressing the attributes of the ideal healthcare delivery system. J Healthc Manag. 2008 Nov-Dec;53(6):407-18; discussion 419.

  PMID: 19070335 BACKGROUND

• Doebbeling BN, Chou AF, Tierney WM. Priorities and strategies for the implementation of integrated informatics and communications technology to improve evidence-based practice. J Gen Intern Med. 2006 Feb;21 Suppl 2(Suppl 2):S50-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2006.00363.x.

  PMID: 16637961 BACKGROUND

• McGowan JJ, Cusack CM, Poon EG. Formative evaluation: a critical component in EHR implementation. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2008 May-Jun;15(3):297-301. doi: 10.1197/jamia.M2584. Epub 2008 Feb 28.

  PMID: 18308984 BACKGROUND

• Rind DM, Safran C, Phillips RS, Wang Q, Calkins DR, Delbanco TL, Bleich HL, Slack WV. Effect of computer-based alerts on the treatment and outcomes of hospitalized patients. Arch Intern Med. 1994 Jul 11;154(13):1511-7.

  PMID: 8018007 BACKGROUND

• Ruland CM, Bakken S. Developing, implementing, and evaluating decision support systems for shared decision making in patient care: a conceptual model and case illustration. J Biomed Inform. 2002 Oct-Dec;35(5-6):313-21. doi: 10.1016/s1532-0464(03)00037-6.

  PMID: 12968780 BACKGROUND

• Crawford TN. Poor retention in care one-year after viral suppression: a significant predictor of viral rebound. AIDS Care. 2014;26(11):1393-9. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2014.920076. Epub 2014 May 21.

  PMID: 24848440 BACKGROUND

• Yehia BR, French B, Fleishman JA, Metlay JP, Berry SA, Korthuis PT, Agwu AL, Gebo KA; HIV Research Network. Retention in care is more strongly associated with viral suppression in HIV-infected patients with lower versus higher CD4 counts. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2014 Mar 1;65(3):333-9. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000000023.

  PMID: 24129370 BACKGROUND

• Robertson M, Laraque F, Mavronicolas H, Braunstein S, Torian L. Linkage and retention in care and the time to HIV viral suppression and viral rebound - New York City. AIDS Care. 2015;27(2):260-7. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2014.959463. Epub 2014 Sep 22.

  PMID: 25244545 BACKGROUND

• Hemming K, Haines TP, Chilton PJ, Girling AJ, Lilford RJ. The stepped wedge cluster randomised trial: rationale, design, analysis, and reporting. BMJ. 2015 Feb 6;350:h391. doi: 10.1136/bmj.h391. No abstract available.

  PMID: 25662947 BACKGROUND

• Wohlfeiler MB, Weber RP, Brunet L, Fusco JS, Uranaka C, Cochran Q, Palma M, Evans T, Millner C, Fusco GP. HIV retention in care: results and lessons learned from the Positive Pathways Implementation Trial. BMC Prim Care. 2022 Nov 23;23(1):297. doi: 10.1186/s12875-022-01909-2.

  PMID: 36424550 DERIVED

Related Links

• CHORUS (Clinical Decision Support System)

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

HIV Infections; Blood-Borne Infections; Communicable Diseases; Infections; Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Lentivirus Infections; Retroviridae Infections; RNA Virus Infections; Virus Diseases; Slow Virus Diseases; Genital Diseases; Urogenital Diseases; Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes; Immune System Diseases

Study Officials

• Michael Wohlfeiler, MD

  AIDS Healthcare Foundation

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: INDUSTRY
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 30, 2019
• First Posted: November 1, 2019
• Study Start: October 5, 2020
• Primary Completion: July 31, 2021
• Study Completion: July 31, 2021
• Last Updated: February 25, 2025

Record last verified: 2021-08

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)