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Ageing and Acute Care Physicians' Performance

NCT02683447 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 48

Last updated 2025-01-20

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Summary

The proportion of older acute care physicians (ACPs) has been increasing. Ageing is associated with physiological changes and research investigating how such age-related physiological changes affect clinical performance is lacking. Specifically, Crisis Resource Management (CRM) consists of essential clinical skills in acute care specialties which when absent, can significantly impact patient safety. As such, the goals of this study are to investigate whether ageing has a correlation with baseline CRM skills of ACPs and whether ageing influences learning from high fidelity simulation.

Conditions

  • Ageing

Interventions

OTHER

CRM Simulation

Each participant will manage a PEA arrest scenario (pre-test) and then be debriefed on their CRM skills by a trained facilitator for 20 minutes. They will then manage another crisis scenario (PEA arrest with a different inciting event) as an immediate post-test. Three months afterwards participants will return to manage a third PEA arrest scenario, which will serve as a retention post-test.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Toronto

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Ottawa

    collaborator OTHER

  • Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Fahad Alam, MD, FRCPC · Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

  • Sylvain Boet, MD, MEd, PhD · University of Ottawa

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-01-31
Primary Completion
2020-01-31
Completion
2020-01-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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