Study of Medical Student Use of Templates to Document Outpatient Asthma Care in Electronic Medical Record

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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The purpose of the study is to measure the effectiveness of a social marketing-based medical education intervention on student use of evidence-based templates for documenting outpatient asthma care within an electronic medical record.

Detailed Description
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The purpose of the study was to measure the effectiveness of a physician-educator led clinical documentation workshop, embedded with 7 persuasive social-marketing based messages, on medical student response using a targeted asthma template. Stated differently, whether a physician-educator could persuade medical students to use an evidence-based EMR asthma template to document an outpatient mild persistent asthma encounter with a patient.

Official Title
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Social Marketing in Medical Education: Influencing Medical Student Use of Evidence-based Templates in Outpatient Documentation of Asthma Care Using an Electronic Medical Record

Conditions
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Disease

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: social marketing-based medical education intervention


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: Third year medical student completing family medicine clerkship Uniformed Services University Exclusion Criteria: All students other than those listed above

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: Intervention group<br> | Behavioral: social marketing-based medical education intervention<br>* social-marketing based medical education intervention designed to influence medical student use of evidence-based templates. Led by physician instructor.<br>* Other names: persuasion;|
| No Intervention: Control Group<br> | |

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Number of Participants Using Evidence-based Template to Document Asthma Care Within an Electronic Medical Record | The primary outcome measure is a count of whether or not the research participant uses the electronic health record-based Asthma AIM form to document a simulated outpatient mild persistent asthma encounter at T1 (immediately following intervention) and T2 (upon completion of family medicine clerkship approximately 35 days later). | immediately after invervention and 30+ days in follow-up | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Clinical Note Completeness Score | The Note Completeness Score is a total score (range 1-31)earned when a clinical encounter note is compared against a note completeness score assessment tool designed by our research team. The tool measures 11 documentation components of the outpatient note. Each of the 11 components are scaled either 0-1 or 0-4 based on perceived importance by our physician designers. | immediately after intervention and 30+ days in follow-up | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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electronic medical records, documentation templates, clinical encounter notes