NCT01043133

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

Social Marketing in Medical Education: Influencing Medical Student Use of Evidence-based Templates in Outpatient Documentation of Asthma Care Using an Electronic Medical Record

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 155 (actual)
• Sponsor: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences · Federal
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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.

Conditions

• Disease

Interventions

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

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-07-01
• Primary completion: 2010-06-01
• Completion: 2010-06-01
• First posted: 2010-01-06
• Last updated: 2011-08-12
• Results posted: 2011-08-12