Effects of an online personal health record on medication accuracy and safety: a cluster-randomized trial

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Cluster-randomized trial

 

Setting: Primary Care
N=541; 267 Intervention vs 274 controls
- 11 primary care practices that used the same Personal Health Record (PHR)
- Intervention practices received access to a medications module promoting patients to review their documented med, identify discrepancies and generate ‘eJournals’
- The proportion of medications per patient with unexplained discrepancies was lower in the intervention arm vs the control (42% vs 51%)
- Discrepancies between documented and patient-reported medication regimens can be reduced with a PHR medication review tool linked to the provider’s medical record
Schnipper et al
Schnipper JL, Gandhi TK, Wald JS, et al. Effects of an online personal health record on medication accuracy and safety: a cluster-randomized trial. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2012;19(5):728-734.