Hana Bangash, Seyedmohammad Saadatagah, Mohammadreza Naderian, Marwan E Hamed, Lubna Alhalabi, Alborz Sherafati, Joseph Sutton, Omar Elsekaily, Ali Mir, Justin H Gundelach, Daniel Gibbons, Paul Johnsen, Christina M Wood-Wentz, Carin Y Smith, Pedro J Caraballo, Kent R Bailey, Iftikhar J Kullo
Severe hypercholesterolemia/possible familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is relatively common but underdiagnosed and undertreated. We investigated whether implementing clinical decision support (CDS) was associated with lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) in patients with severe hypercholesterolemia/possible FH (LDL-C ≥ 190 mg/dL). As part of a pre-post implementation study, a CDS alert was deployed in the electronic health record (EHR) in a large health system comprising 3 main sites, 16 hospitals and 53 clinics...
March 18, 2024: NPJ Digital Medicine