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A Priori Diagnosis and Diagnostic Errors

NCT04659265 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 156

Last updated 2020-12-09

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This is a prospective randomized single-blind simulator-based trial. 156 4th year medical students were randomised to receive one of three different suspected diagnoses of a pre-treating physician (no diagnosis, myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolism) prior to the task to make a focussed assessment and perform first management steps in a patient presenting to the emergency department. The patient (simulator) suffered from an acute myocardial infarction. Video recordings were obtained during simulation and used for data analysis. Primary endpoint was the participants' final presuptive diagnosis.

Conditions

  • Error Disclosure
  • Diagnoses Disease
  • Simulation of Physical Illness

Interventions

OTHER

Suspected diagnosis of a pre-treating physician

Participants receive the information that the pre-treating physician thought the patient is suffering from a medical emergency (no diagnosis), an acute myocardial infarction (correct diagnosis) or a pulmonary embolism (wrong diagnosis)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Stephan Marsch · University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-01-31
Primary Completion
2019-06-30
Completion
2020-02-29

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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