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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01043133
• Other study ID #: B02930
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: January 5, 2010
• Last updated: July 14, 2011
• Start date: July 2009
• Est. completion date: June 2010

Study information

• Verified date: January 2010
• Source: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Federal Government
• Study type: Interventional

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.

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 155
• Est. completion date: June 2010
• Est. primary completion date: June 2010
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Third year medical student completing family medicine clerkship Uniformed Services University

Exclusion Criteria:

• All students other than those listed above

Study Design

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Disease

Intervention

Behavioral:
• social marketing-based medical education intervention
social-marketing based medical education intervention designed to influence medical student use of evidence-based templates. Led by physician instructor.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Number of Participants Using Evidence-based Template to Document Asthma Care Within an Electronic Medical Record	The primary outcome measure is a count of whether or not the research participant uses the electronic health record-based Asthma AIM form to document a simulated outpatient mild persistent asthma encounter at T1 (immediately following intervention) and T2 (upon completion of family medicine clerkship approximately 35 days later).	immediately after invervention and 30+ days in follow-up	No
Secondary	Clinical Note Completeness Score	The Note Completeness Score is a total score (range 1-31)earned when a clinical encounter note is compared against a note completeness score assessment tool designed by our research team. The tool measures 11 documentation components of the outpatient note. Each of the 11 components are scaled either 0-1 or 0-4 based on perceived importance by our physician designers.	immediately after intervention and 30+ days in follow-up	No