Clinical trial NCT02537301: Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography(ERCP)-Related Discussion Through a Mobile Social App by a Group of Doctors
Official title: Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography(ERCP)-Related Discussion Through a Mobile Social App by Trainees After Finishing ERCP Training
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Healthy
Keywords: Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography
social networking
group chat
Lead sponsor: Air Force Military Medical University, China
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2015-09-01
Enrollment: 60
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 70
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Time perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Doctors who received and finished their ERCP training in Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases and joined in a chatting group through a mobile social app

Brief summary: Group chat through the platform of mobile social networking provides an easily accessible, real-time and interactive channel for communication. With the help of mobile social app, a group of doctors with similar interests can share valuable cases, important papers and opinions through multiple media types (texts, images, and videos). It remains unknown what activities of Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography(ERCP) doctors on a group-chat platform are.

In the beginning of 2013, a chatting group on Wechat (the most popular mobile social app in China), focusing on ERCP, was created. All the doctors who received and finished their ERCP training in Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases were invited to join in the platform. The contents in the chatting group were analyzed. The relationships between the chatting activities of ERCP doctors and the performance of ERCP (such as case volume, cannulation success rate and PEP etc.) were investigated.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Doctors who received and finished their ERCP training in Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases and joined in a chatting group in a mobile social app (Wechat).

Exclusion Criteria:

* Unable to join in the chatting group
* Unable to finish the questionaire
* Denying participating in the study

Primary outcomes:
measure: Chatting frequency
timeFrame: 1 year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Difficulty grade of the discussed case
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: Number of biliary duct-related cases
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: ERCP performance volumes
timeFrame: 1 year
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Xi'an
country: China
facility: Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases
state: Shaanxi
Study officials:
affiliation: Xijing Hospital of Disgestive Diseases.The Fourth Military University
name: Yanglin Pan
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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