The use of the best evidence available for decision-making is nowadays an undisputed goal in health care. However, this is not always achieved in the context of clinical practice. Two of the potential solutions to bridge the gap between evidence and the clinical practice are the "evidence summaries" and the "evidence based recommendations". However, it is not clear, and frequently controversial, to what extent clinicians consider helpful recommendations accompanying evidence summaries. The investigators will explore this question by conducting a study where clinicians will be randomized to receive a clinical scenario accompanied by an evidence summary plus a recommendation and a second clinical scenario accompanied by only for an evidence summary (group A) or vice versa (Group B). The outcome will be clinicians' preferences.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
467
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Preferences
Preference: for the evidence summary plus the accompanying recommendation or for the evidence summary alone. We will assess this outcome with a 7-point Lickert scale This outcome will be assessed after the presentation of the two clinical scenarios.
Time frame: Immediately after the intervention (Survey)
Understanding
Understanding: Percentage of correct answers regarding the understanding of the evidence: understanding of baseline risk, risk difference, confidence interval and quality of the evidence assessment.
Time frame: Immediately after the intervention (Survey)
Interpretation of benefits and harms
Interpretation of benefits and harms: Distribution of the interpretation of the magnitude of the benefits in comparison with harms
Time frame: Immediately after the intervention (Survey)
Intended course of action
Intended course of action: For the clinical questions related with strong recommendations, we will compare the percentage of appropriate decisions (i.e. decisions that match the strong recommendation).
Time frame: Immediately after the intervention (Survey)
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