NCT06731660

Digital Otoscope Versus Education and Feedback for Otitis Media in Young Children

Effect of Education and Feedback, Wispr Digital Otoscope, or Both on Antibiotic Prescribing Patterns for Otitis Media in Young Children

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Boston Children's Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Randomized controlled trial involving 40 pediatric primary care clinicians with high rates of diagnosing and treating middle ear infections. Ten enrolled clinicians will be randomly assigned to each of 4 arms for a three-month trial: 1) personalized education and feedback about proper ear infection diagnosis; 2) use of a digital otoscope; 3) both education and feedback plus use of a digital otoscope; 4) control (no intervention).

Detailed description

Randomized controlled trial involving 40 pediatric primary care clinicians with rates of otitis media diagnosis and antibiotic prescribing in the top quartile of the entire clinician population of the Pediatric Physicians' Organization at Children's over the previous 12 months who consent to enroll in the trial after direct outreach from the study team. Ten enrolled clinicians will be randomly assigned to each of 4 arms for a three-month intervention period: 1) personalized education and feedback about proper otitis media diagnosis following criteria from the American Academy of Pediatrics; 2) use of the Wispr digital otoscope; 3) both education and feedback plus use of the Wispr digital otoscope; 4) control (no intervention).

Conditions

• Otitis Media
• Antimicrobial Stewardship

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Education with personalized performance feedback	Education about proper otitis media diagnosis following criteria from the American Academy of Pediatrics with personalized performance feedback on otitis media diagnosis and treatment rates delivered via email
DEVICE	Use of digital otoscope	Use of the Wispr digital otoscope to diagnose otitis media in place of a traditional visual otoscope

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-01-01
• Primary completion: 2025-04-30
• Completion: 2026-01-31
• First posted: 2024-12-12
• Last updated: 2026-01-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States