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Trial of a Video Game Intervention to Recalibrate Physician Heuristics: A Followup Study

NCT03138304 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 142

Last updated 2017-08-24

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The objective of this study is to measure the duration of two different types of interventions to change physician decision making in trauma triage: a video game and an educational program.

Conditions

  • Wounds and Injuries

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Video game

Night Shift is an adventure video game with the transformational goal of teaching physicians key characteristics of patients with non-representative severe injuries - injuries classified by the American College of Surgeons as life-threatening or critical but that do not fit the archetype of injuries typically requiring treatment at a trauma center.

BEHAVIORAL

Educational program

Two commercially available applications designed to teach physicians the trauma triage guidelines disseminated by the American College of Surgeons.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Pittsburgh

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Deepika Mohan, MD · University of Pittsburgh

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-05-02
Primary Completion
2017-06-01
Completion
2017-06-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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