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

Uniformed Services University (USU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Disease

Treatments: Behavioral: social marketing-based medical education intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT01043133

B02930

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 155 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

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

Exclusion criteria

• All students other than those listed above

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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155 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: social marketing-based medical education intervention

Control Group

No Intervention group