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Improving maternity care using a personal health record: study protocol for a stepped-wedge, randomised, controlled trial.
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Trials . 4/16/2016, Vol. 17, p1-6. 6p. 1 Chart, 1 Graph. - Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- <bold>Background: </bold>A personal health record (PHR) is an online application through which individuals can access, manage, and share their health information in a private, secure, and confidential environment. Personal health records empower patients, facilitate collaboration among healthcare professionals, and improve health outcomes. Given these anticipated positive effects, we want to implement a PHR, named MyPregn@ncy, in a Dutch maternity care setting and to evaluate its effects in routine care. This paper presents the study protocol.<bold>Methods/design: </bold>The effects of implementing a PHR in maternity care on patients and professionals will be identified in a stepped-wedge, cluster-randomised, controlled trial. The study will be performed in the region of Nijmegen, a Dutch area with an average of 4,500 births a year and more than 230 healthcare professionals involved in maternity care. Data analyses will describe the effects of MyPregn@ncy on health outcomes in maternity care, quality of care from the patients' perspectives, and collaboration among healthcare professionals. Additionally, a process evaluation of the implementation of MyPregn@ncy will be performed. Data will be collected using data from the Dutch perinatal registry, questionnaires, interviews, and log data.<bold>Discussion: </bold>The study is expected to yield new information about the effects, strengths, possibilities, and challenges to the implementation and usage of a PHR in routine maternal care settings. Results may lead to new insights and improvements in the quality of maternal and perinatal care.<bold>Trial Registration: </bold>Netherlands Trial Register: NTR4063. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *MATERNAL health services
*MEDICAL records
*COOPERATIVE research
*CLINICAL medicine
*COMPARATIVE studies
*EXPERIMENTAL design
*INTERVIEWING
*RESEARCH methodology
*MEDICAL cooperation
*RESEARCH protocols
*PATIENT satisfaction
*QUALITY assurance
*RESEARCH
*TIME
*EVALUATION research
*KEY performance indicators (Management)
*RANDOMIZED controlled trials
*ACQUISITION of data
*EVALUATION of human services programs
PERINATAL care
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17456215
- Volume :
- 17
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Trials
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 114585508
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-016-1326-0