Implementing electronic clinical reminders for lipid management in patients with ischemic heart disease in the veterans health administration: QUERI Series

Table 5 Process outcomes: Provider survey responses

				Site				Site
	Intervention hospitals overall	Comparison hospitals overall	p-value	A	B	C	p-value	D	E	F	p-value
Proportion of primary care clinicians who report using any electronic reminders whether the national IHD reminders or not *(from provider survey)	88.4%	98.2%	0.04	64.3%	94.9%	93.7%	0.01	100%	100%	96.4%	0.59
Proportion reporting frequent use of IHD electronic reminders	38.4%	20.3%	0.01	30.0%	36.4%	50.0%	0.38	45.8%	21.4%	2.8%	<0.001
Proportion reporting that IHD electronic reminders are very useful	32.3%	16.2%	0.02	35.0%	29.1%	37.5%	0.77	37.5%	14.3%	2.8%	0.001
Proportion reporting that IHD electronic reminders increase awareness of lipid monitoring for IHD patients	30.3%	14.9%	0.02	30.0%	25.4%	41.7%	0.35	29.2%	21.4%	2.8%	0.008
Proportion reporting that electronic reminder screens provide appropriate treatment/action options	27.3%	14.9%	0.06	25.0%	23.6%	37.5%	0.48	37.5%	7.1%	2.8%

*Comparison sites had access to electronic IHD reminders, but were not encouraged to turn them on, nor was the implementation intervention deployed at these sites.

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