Study of Medical Student Use of Templates to Document Outpatient Asthma Care in Electronic Medical Record

Disease Clinical Trial

Official title: Social Marketing in Medical Education: Influencing Medical Student Use of Evidence-based Templates in Outpatient Documentation of Asthma Care Using an Electronic Medical Record

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of the study is to measure the effectiveness of a social marketing-based medical education intervention on student use of evidence-based templates for documenting outpatient asthma care within an electronic medical record.

Clinical Trial Description

The purpose of the study was to measure the effectiveness of a physician-educator led clinical documentation workshop, embedded with 7 persuasive social-marketing based messages, on medical student response using a targeted asthma template. Stated differently, whether a physician-educator could "persuade" medical students to use an evidence-based EMR asthma template to document an outpatient mild persistent asthma encounter with a patient. ;

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Subject), Primary Purpose: Health Services Research

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Disease

• NCT number: NCT01043133
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: July 2009
• Completion date: June 2010