NCT01377675

Web-based, Interactive Professional Education for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Assessment of an Interactive Education Tool to Disseminate Best Practice Recommendations on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease to Primary Care

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 10 (actual)
• Sponsor: The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study involves the development and evaluation of a web-based, interactive education program on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) for primary care clinicians. The research questions that this proposal addresses include: 1. Can an interactive, web-based COPD course be developed to disseminate evidence-based, best practice recommendations to primary care clinicians? 2. Can assessment tools be developed to evaluate the impact of the program on clinician behavior in clinical practice and on patient care?

Conditions

• Education of Primary Care Clinicians

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Education	The third year internal medicine residents completed the usual curriculum for COPD and took one pretest and two posttests to validate the questions.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-04-01
• Primary completion: 2014-09-01
• Completion: 2014-09-01
• First posted: 2011-06-21
• Last updated: 2014-12-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States