OrthoEvidence Trial Assessing Japanese Knowledge Updates (OTAKU)

McMaster University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy Volunteer

Treatments: Other: Japanese-translated evidence summaries (Advanced Clinical Evidence report from OrthoEvidence); Other: English evidence summaries (Advanced Clinical Evidence report from OrthoEvidence)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05250622

13493

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this randomized controlled trial is to clarify whether providing translated evidence summary (Advanced Clinical Evidence (ACE) reports from OrthoEvidence) will increase the access to the summary compared to providing the original version of evidence summary among Japanese orthopaedic surgeons

Full description

The investigators will conduct the survey regarding baseline characteristics, barriers and familiality to evidence-based medicine by online. After the survey, the participants will be randomly assigned to receive either the original version of ACE reports or Japanese version of ACE reports. The pdf of each ACE report will be provided to the participants through an email link. Twenty reports will be sent over 4 weeks period. After that, the investigators will conduct another survey regarding the reports.

Enrollment: 105 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Member of Japanese Society for Fracture Repair (JSFR)
2. Spend at least 20% of their time in clinical practice
3. Non-native speaker of English
4. Has regular access to internet
5. Prefer to read Japanese-translated material, if there are both translated and English version of the same material.

Exclusion criteria

We will exclude surgeons who cannot provide informed consent.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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105 participants in 2 patient groups

Japanese group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants who will receive Japanese-translated version of evidence summaries

Treatment:

Other: Japanese-translated evidence summaries (Advanced Clinical Evidence report from OrthoEvidence)

English group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants who will receive English version of evidence summaries

Treatment:

Other: English evidence summaries (Advanced Clinical Evidence report from OrthoEvidence)