Publications by authors named "Vijayakumar Thirumalai"
Background: Clinical decision support (CDS) has the potential to improve clinical decision-making consistent with evidence-based care. CDS can be designed to save health care providers time and help them provide safe and personalized analgesic prescribing.
Objective: The aim of this report is to describe the development of a CDS system designed to provide dentists with personalized pain management recommendations to reduce opioid prescribing following extractions.
Article Synopsis
- Early detection of hypertension in children is vital for reducing long-term heart disease risk, but it's often missed; the PedsBP tool aims to improve recognition by clinicians in a rural health system.
- The study evaluates PedsBP's effectiveness in identifying hypertension in youth aged 6-17, comparing low-intensity and high-intensity implementation strategies.
- The ongoing trial involves 40 clinics and focuses on measuring repeat hypertension readings and awareness of the condition, with results anticipated in mid-2024.*
Importance: Management of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in socioeconomically vulnerable patients is suboptimal; better risk factor control could improve CVD outcomes.
Objective: To evaluate the impact of a clinical decision support system (CDSS) targeting CVD risk in community health centers (CHCs).
Design, Setting, And Participants: This cluster randomized clinical trial included 70 CHC clinics randomized to an intervention group (42 clinics; 8 organizations) or a control group that received no intervention (28 clinics; 7 organizations) from September 20, 2018, to March 15, 2020.