Impact of Medical Education of Physician Action 2

Shanxi Dayi Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Spondyloarthritis

Treatments: Other: Medical education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02696551

The IMPACT2 Project

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a retrospective and prospective designed study, included hospitals are 1:1 assigned into two groups: ①Interventional hospital, which will receive 3-month medical education; ②Non-interventional hospital, which will not receive 3-month medical education. During 1 month before education, all the electronic records of outpatients and inpatients who visit the included rheumatologists will be collected and the data of test and evaluation results of spondyloarthritis (SpA) patients diagnosed according to new Assessment of Spondylo-Arthritis International Society (ASAS) criteria will be collected from outpatient electronic records and inpatients medical charts; in the 3 months after education, the same data will be collected and compared with the data before education, and the impact of medical education on physician behaviour will be analyzed. Meanwhile, the understanding and acceptance level will be evaluated by the questionnaire, the differences before and after education and the impact of education on physician cognition will be evaluated.

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Interventional hospital will be selected based on following criteria:

1. having complete outpatients and inpatients electronic records;
2. more than 50% of registrars and/or consultants in the department participated the professional education event;
3. the department head is willing to participate the clinical audit and provide the information from outpatients and inpatients records for data collection;
4. except for rheumatic diseases have been clearly diagnosed.

Non-interventional hospital will be selected based on following criteria:

1. having complete outpatients and inpatients electronic records;
2. no professional education event covered;
3. the department head is willing to participate the clinical audit and provide the information from outpatients and inpatients records for data collection;
4. except for rheumatic diseases have been clearly diagnosed.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Interventional hospital

Experimental group

Description:

Interventional hospital, which will receive 3-month medical education

Treatment:

Other: Medical education

Non-interventional hospital

No Intervention group

Description:

Non-interventional hospital, which will not receive 3-month medical education.