Annals of family medicine
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Annals of family medicine · Jul 2014
Randomized Controlled TrialElectronic health records for intervention research: a cluster randomized trial to reduce antibiotic prescribing in primary care (eCRT study).
This study aimed to implement a point-of-care cluster randomized trial using electronic health records. We evaluated the effectiveness of electronically delivered decision support tools at reducing antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infections in primary care. ⋯ Cluster randomized trials may be implemented efficiently in large samples from routine care settings by using primary care electronic health records. Future studies should develop and test multicomponent methods for remotely delivered intervention.