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Improving maternity care using a personal health record: study protocol for a stepped-wedge, randomised, controlled trial
BACKGROUND: 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,...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4833906/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27084751 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-016-1326-0 |
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author | Groenen, Carola J. M. Faber, Marjan J. Kremer, Jan A. M. Vandenbussche, Frank P. H. A. van Duijnhoven, Noortje T. L. |
author_facet | Groenen, Carola J. M. Faber, Marjan J. Kremer, Jan A. M. Vandenbussche, Frank P. H. A. van Duijnhoven, Noortje T. L. |
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description | BACKGROUND: 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. METHODS/DESIGN: 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. DISCUSSION: 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. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Netherlands Trial Register: NTR4063 |
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spelling | pubmed-48339062016-04-17 Improving maternity care using a personal health record: study protocol for a stepped-wedge, randomised, controlled trial Groenen, Carola J. M. Faber, Marjan J. Kremer, Jan A. M. Vandenbussche, Frank P. H. A. van Duijnhoven, Noortje T. L. Trials Study Protocol BACKGROUND: 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. METHODS/DESIGN: 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. DISCUSSION: 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. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Netherlands Trial Register: NTR4063 BioMed Central 2016-04-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4833906/ /pubmed/27084751 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-016-1326-0 Text en © Groenen et al. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Study Protocol Groenen, Carola J. M. Faber, Marjan J. Kremer, Jan A. M. Vandenbussche, Frank P. H. A. van Duijnhoven, Noortje T. L. Improving maternity care using a personal health record: study protocol for a stepped-wedge, randomised, controlled trial |
title | Improving maternity care using a personal health record: study protocol for a stepped-wedge, randomised, controlled trial |
title_full | Improving maternity care using a personal health record: study protocol for a stepped-wedge, randomised, controlled trial |
title_fullStr | Improving maternity care using a personal health record: study protocol for a stepped-wedge, randomised, controlled trial |
title_full_unstemmed | Improving maternity care using a personal health record: study protocol for a stepped-wedge, randomised, controlled trial |
title_short | Improving maternity care using a personal health record: study protocol for a stepped-wedge, randomised, controlled trial |
title_sort | improving maternity care using a personal health record: study protocol for a stepped-wedge, randomised, controlled trial |
topic | Study Protocol |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4833906/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27084751 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-016-1326-0 |
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