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

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences155 enrolled

Overview

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.

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.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

155

Conditions

Disease

Interventions

social marketing-based medical education interventionBEHAVIORAL

social-marketing based medical education intervention designed to influence medical student use of evidence-based templates. Led by physician instructor.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Third year medical student completing family medicine clerkship Uniformed Services University Exclusion Criteria: * All students other than those listed above

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Number of Participants Using Evidence-based Template to Document Asthma Care Within an Electronic Medical Record

The primary outcome measure is a count of whether or not the research participant uses the electronic health record-based Asthma AIM form to document a simulated outpatient mild persistent asthma encounter at T1 (immediately following intervention) and T2 (upon completion of family medicine clerkship approximately 35 days later).

Time frame: immediately after invervention and 30+ days in follow-up

Secondary Outcomes

Clinical Note Completeness Score

The Note Completeness Score is a total score (range 1-31)earned when a clinical encounter note is compared against a note completeness score assessment tool designed by our research team. The tool measures 11 documentation components of the outpatient note. Each of the 11 components are scaled either 0-1 or 0-4 based on perceived importance by our physician designers.

Time frame: immediately after intervention and 30+ days in follow-up

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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