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

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Disease
• Interventions: Behavioral: social marketing-based medical education intervention

• Registration Number: NCT01043133
• Lead Sponsor: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2009-07
• Status Verified: 2010-01
• Study First Submitted: 2010-01-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2010-01-05
• Study First Posted: 2010-01-06
• Primary Completion: 2010-06
• Study Completion: 2010-06
• Results First Submitted: 2010-12-03
• Results First Submitted QC: 2011-07-14
• Last Update Submitted: 2011-07-14
• Results First Posted: 2011-08-12
• Last Update Posted: 2011-08-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 155

Inclusion Criteria

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

Exclusion Criteria

• All students other than those listed above

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention group	social marketing-based medical education intervention	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of Participants Using Evidence-based Template to Document Asthma Care Within an Electronic Medical Record	immediately after invervention and 30+ days in follow-up	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).

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Clinical Note Completeness Score	immediately after intervention and 30+ days in follow-up	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.