Web-based, Interactive Professional Education for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (WipeCOPD)

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Education of Primary Care Clinicians

Treatments: Other: Education

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01377675

WipeCOPD

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study involves the development and evaluation of a web-based, interactive education program on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) for primary care clinicians.

The research questions that this proposal addresses include:

1. Can an interactive, web-based COPD course be developed to disseminate evidence-based, best practice recommendations to primary care clinicians?
2. Can assessment tools be developed to evaluate the impact of the program on clinician behavior in clinical practice and on patient care?

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Primary care clinicians in training
• willing to participate

Exclusion criteria

• Specialists

Trial design

10 participants in 1 patient group

Usual curriculum education program

Description:

Third year internal medicine residents

Treatment:

Other: Education