SMART Implementation-Effectiveness Trial 1
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Clinical decision support + education (CDS+), Control.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Asthma in Children. Basic parameters: 5 years — 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Single Maintenance And Reliever Therapy Strategies for IMPLementation and Effectiveness (SMART & SIMPLE) Trial
Overview
While single maintenance and reliever therapy (SMART) has been the preferred management strategy for Step 3 and 4 (moderate/severe) asthma management since the 2020 NIH asthma guideline updates, adoption of SMART has not been rigorously assessed. This study will test electronic medical record clinical decision support and education implementation strategies (CDS+) to increase adoption of SMART in pediatric primary care. This is the first of two related records.
Detailed description
Asthma is a leading cause of childhood morbidity nationwide. Limited provider adoption of and patient adherence to the prevailing evidence-based recommendations for chronic management represent tractable areas for care improvement and implementation focus. In their 2020 Focused Updates, the NHLBI codified a new paradigm of asthma management - single maintenance and reliever therapy (SMART) - as the preferred management strategy for Steps 3 and 4 (moderate/severe) asthma management. In addition to its efficacy and safety, SMART has demonstrated real-world effectiveness in international settings, likely due in part to better adherence to daily therapy and less inhaler confusion. However, SMART has not been widely implemented in practice in the U.S. This hybrid type II implementation-effectiveness study will sequentially compare the effects of usual care to (1) electronic health record-based clinical decision support plus education (CDS+) (Study 1 - current study) and then (2) CDS+ with population health management (PHM) strategies (community health worker and nurse care manager) on SMART adoption (Study 2). Randomization for this study is at the clinic-level. Results will be reported at visit-, patient-, and clinic-levels.
Interventions
- Behavioral Clinical decision support + education (CDS+)
Intervention clinic providers will experience nudges in the electronic medical record to encourage prescribing SMART where clinically-appropriate and intervention clinic providers, families/patients, and nurses will receive education (collectively CDS+). - Other Control
Clinics in Arm 2 will not be exposed to the interventions.
Primary outcome measures
- Change in the Rate of Visit-Level SMART Adoption [Time frame: Assessment of rates from two study intervals: Interval 0 (baseline; 11 months), Interval 1 (CDS+; 11 months). There will be a one month ramp up period at the start of each study interval (ramp up period data will not be included in analyses).]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
- Change in the Proportion of Patient-Level SMART Sustainment [Time frame: Assessment of proportions from two study intervals: Interval 0 (baseline; 11 months), Interval 1 (CDS+; 11 months). There will be a one month ramp up period at the start of each study interval (ramp up period data will not be included in analyses).]
Eligibility criteria
Clinic Inclusion Criteria:
- The clinic is a pediatric primary care clinic that is part of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Pediatric Research Consortium (PeRC).
- The clinic agrees to participate in SMART \& SIMPLE study.
Clinic Exclusion Criteria:
\- The clinic is not willing to participate in SMART \& SIMPLE study interventions.
Patient Inclusion Criteria:
- Ages 5-18 years;
- Has clinic visit at participating practice during study interval (sick, well, or follow-up)
- Prescribed at least one prescription for an inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) or ICS-long-acting beta agonist (ICS-LABA) for maintenance asthma therapy in the past year;
- Evidence of uncontrolled asthma as determined by: (1) uncontrolled Asthma Control Tool score in the past 6 months OR (2) two or more systemic corticosteroids prescribed for an asthma exacerbation in the past 12 months (one occurring in the past 6 months)
Patient Exclusion Criteria:
\- Transferred clinics or left the CHOP Pediatric Care Network.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia — Philadelphia
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07137923 · 23-021702 A · R01HL173600