An evaluation of the Junior Doctors' Dashboard
Completed
- Conditions
- This study evaluates the impact of a feedback tool which measures performance and evaluates the effect to prescribing behaviour when performance is fedback to junior doctors prescribing using the Prescribing Information and Communication System in a university teaching hospital.Not Applicable
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN72253051
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UK)
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 143
Inclusion Criteria
Any doctor within the Trust who is below ST3 level (i.e. below specialty / specialist registrar level) and not within the exclusion criteria who had used PICS for four months preceding the trial, and who
would be using the system during the trial period.
Exclusion Criteria
1. Doctors who are not actively using the PICS system (those who have issued fewer than 10 prescriptions in the baseline period).
2. Doctors who had only recently joined the hospital and for whom no baseline data were available.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. A difference in responses (on the dials identified in the primary outcome)to warnings, alarms and alerts between the months before and the months after the intervention<br>2. A difference in performance between participants receiving feedback and the control group<br>3. Differences between the following dials:<br>3.1. Disallow warnings for excessive dosing<br>3.2. Password warnings for excessive dosing and interactions<br>3.3. Laboratory alarms and alerts.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The differences between the following dials:<br>1. Disallow warnings for contraindications<br>2. Allergies and interactions / password warnings for contraindications and allergies