Improving Diagnosis and Clinical Management of Familial Hypercholesterolemia Through Integrated Machine Learning, Implementation Science, and Behavioral Economics

"For patients with a Penn PCP, we are testing a centralized referral mechanism to increase the number of referrals to preventive cardiology (default/opt out referrals)~For default/opt out: PCPs will receive a pended order for a referral for their patient to see a lipid specialist for a formal FH evaluation. Not interacting with the pended order or accepting the pended order will indicate that the referral to a lipid specialist should be placed."

All eligible patients will be informed that they have been identified by the FIND FH tool as potentially having familial hypercholesterolemia. All patients will be invited to schedule a telehealth appointment with a lipid specialist for a formal evaluation for FH.