Assessment of Skill Retention in Clinical Practice

Risk Reduction Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Unknown status

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02510196
• Other study ID #: 0036-13-HMO
• Status: Unknown status
• Phase: N/A
• First received: June 10, 2015
• Last updated: July 26, 2015
• Start date: April 2015

Study information

• Verified date: February 2015
• Source: Hadassah Medical Organization
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Teaching program population: Participants in Hadassah Ein Kerem ultrasound training day - Anesthesia residents Exclusion criteria: Refusal to participate, insufficient understanding of written English used in the questionnaires

Stage 1 - training The aims and requirements of the teaching program will be explained to the participants at the start of the workshop. All participants will be given a sticker with a number and a questionnaire numbered about current ultrasound practice which is numbered according to participant number to allow for blinding. Anyone not wishing to participate can either remove their sticker or not return the questionnaire at the end of the session. The number on the questionnaire correlated to participant number. This will be recorded against the participant name to allow for further follow up. All participants will rotate normally throughout the sessions. At the end of the neuraxial session participants will be scored by the session leader according to their ability to adequately carry out the procedure. Scores will be correlated to participant number.

Stage 2 - assessment of skill retention

Following the training day participants will randomly be allocated into two groups. One group will receive regular reminders to use ultrasound for all neuraxial anesthesias they perform in the OR or labor ward. They will be reminded on a regular basis that ultrasound is a new tool to assist them in performing neuraxial ultrasound. The other group with be allowed to continue with their regular practice and will not receive reminders to use ultrasound for neuraxial anesthesia insertion. Two months after the initial training day all participants with be observed performing neuraxial anesthesia and re-assesed according to the original scoring system. Each participant will be assessed 3 times over a 6 month period.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Unknown status
• Enrollment: 30
• Est. primary completion date: February 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 70 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Practicing anesthesiologists of all levels at Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital

Exclusion Criteria:

• Unwillingness to complete questionnaire, poor English comprehension

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Risk Reduction

Intervention

Behavioral:
• reminder

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Hadassah Medical Organization

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Ultrasound Performance on a model	ability of participants to perform neuraxial ultrasound will be assessed at 2 monthly intervals	1 year