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Evidence Based Medicine in General Practice

NCT01801683 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 98

Last updated 2015-05-28

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Summary

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is the basis of work for physicians- practitioners in all specialties, including family medicine. Various issues in diagnosis, treatment and prognosis appear in daily work with patients and a physician should provide answers based on the best evidence stemming from research. In spite of having access to EBM databases in every GP's office in Croatia, searching and finding answers in consultation with a patient"on the spot" in real time is missing from practice.

OBJECTIVES: To determine GP's knowledge and attitudes about EBM before and after applying modified academic detailing "EBM intervention." provided by sixth- year medical students We assume that GP's knowledge and attitudes about EBM will change as a result of "EBM intervention" applied by students.

Conditions

  • Health Knowledge Attitudes and Practice

Interventions

OTHER

Intervention-using PEARLS

The intervention applied in this study was the modified academic detailing method, performed by sixth-year medical students as academic detailers. The students qualified for that role because they were taught about EBM in several courses during their undergraduate curriculum. During the family medicine rotation, each GP mentored six students in total. In Split each student visited two mentors for two weeks. In the course of rotation each mentor chose two patients (cases) from real life who represented diagnostic, therapeutic or prognostic challenge. The students' task was to form an answerable question, using the Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome (PICO) scheme, find the best evidence-based answer to that question and to write a brief report according to Practical Evidence about Real Life Situations (PEARLS) pattern. The mentor then reviewed the report and discussed it with the student.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital of Split

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Davorka Vrdoljak, MD Gp PhD · University Hospital of Split

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-01-31
Primary Completion
2013-04-30
Completion
2013-05-31

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