An Electronic Health Record Alert for Inpatient Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccinations Increases Vaccination Ordering and Uncovers Workflow Inefficiencies.
Kameron Collin Black, Nicole Ashley Snyder, Mengyu Zhou, Zhen Zhu, Colby Uptegraft, Ani Chintalapani, Benjamin Orwoll
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Abstract
Background: Despite mortality benefits, only 19.9% of U.S. adults are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The inpatient setting is an opportune environment to update vaccinations, and inpatient electronic health record (EHR) alerts have been shown to increase vaccination rates.
Objective: Our objective was to evaluate whether an EHR alert could increase COVID-19 vaccinations in eligible hospitalized adults by prompting providers to order the vaccine.
Methods: This was a quasiexperimental pre-post-interventional design study at an academic and community hospital in the western United States between 1 January, 2021 and 31 October, 2021. Inclusion criteria were unvaccinated hospitalized adults. A soft-stop, interruptive EHR alert prompted providers to order COVID-19 vaccines for those with an expected discharge date within 48 hours and interest in vaccination. The outcome measured was the proportion of all eligible patients for whom vaccines were ordered and administered before and after alert implementation.
Results: Vaccine ordering rates increased from 4.0 to 13.0% at the academic hospital (odds ratio [OR]: 4.01, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 3.39-4.74, p < 0.001) and from 7.4 to 11.6% at the community hospital (OR: 1.62, 95% CI: 1.23-2.13, p < 0.001) after alert implementation. Administration increased postalert from 3.6 to 12.7% at the academic hospital (OR: 3.21, 95% CI: 2.70-3.82, p < 0.001) but was unchanged at the community hospital, 6.7 to 6.7% (OR: 0.99, 95% CI: 0.73-1.37, p = 0.994). Further analysis revealed infrequent vaccine availability at the community hospital.
Conclusion: Vaccine ordering rates improved at both sites after alert implementation. Vaccine administration rates, however, only improved at the academic hospital, likely due in part to vaccine dispensation inefficiency at the community hospital. This study demonstrates the potential impact of complex workflow patterns on new EHR alert success and provides a rationale for subsequent qualitative workflow analysis with alert implementation.
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ACI is the third Schattauer journal dealing with biomedical and health informatics. It perfectly complements our other journals Öffnet internen Link im aktuellen FensterMethods of Information in Medicine and the Öffnet internen Link im aktuellen FensterYearbook of Medical Informatics. The Yearbook of Medical Informatics being the “Milestone” or state-of-the-art journal and Methods of Information in Medicine being the “Science and Research” journal of IMIA, ACI intends to be the “Practical” journal of IMIA.