Clinical trial NCT05250622: OrthoEvidence Trial Assessing Japanese Knowledge Updates
Official title: OrthoEvidence Trial Assessing Japanese Knowledge Updates : Trial of Knowledge Translation Among Japanese Surgeons
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Healthy Volunteer
Keywords: Surveys and Questionnaires
Clinical Competence
Orthopedics
Attitude of Health Personnel
Evidence-based medicine
Lead sponsor: McMaster University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Japanese Society for Fracture Repair
name: OrthoEvidence
First posted: 2022-02-22
Enrollment: 105
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The purpose of this randomized controlled trial is to clarify whether providing translated evidence summary (Advanced Clinical Evidence (ACE) reports from OrthoEvidence) will increase the access to the summary compared to providing the original version of evidence summary among Japanese orthopaedic surgeons

Detailed description: The investigators will conduct the survey regarding baseline characteristics, barriers and familiality to evidence-based medicine by online. After the survey, the participants will be randomly assigned to receive either the original version of ACE reports or Japanese version of ACE reports. The pdf of each ACE report will be provided to the participants through an email link. Twenty reports will be sent over 4 weeks period. After that, the investigators will conduct another survey regarding the reports.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Member of Japanese Society for Fracture Repair (JSFR)
2. Spend at least 20% of their time in clinical practice
3. Non-native speaker of English
4. Has regular access to internet
5. Prefer to read Japanese-translated material, if there are both translated and English version of the same material.

Exclusion Criteria:

We will exclude surgeons who cannot provide informed consent.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Number of access to evidence summaries
timeFrame: Four weeks (28 days) after the commencement of the trial
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Self-rated score of understanding the contents of the provided materials
timeFrame: Within four weeks after the end of intervention
measure: Self-rated score in changing their practice based on the contents of the materials
timeFrame: Within four weeks after the end of intervention
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Hamilton
country: Canada
facility: McMaster University
state: Ontario
Study officials:
affiliation: McMaster University
name: Kim Madden, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Sprague S, Smith C, Bhandari M. OrthoEvidence: A Clinical Resource for Evidence-Based Orthopedics. Orthop Rev (Pavia). 2015 Jun 3;7(2):5762. doi: 10.4081/or.2015.5762. eCollection 2015 Jun 3.
citation: Poolman RW, Sierevelt IN, Farrokhyar F, Mazel JA, Blankevoort L, Bhandari M. Perceptions and competence in evidence-based medicine: Are surgeons getting better? A questionnaire survey of members of the Dutch Orthopaedic Association. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2007 Jan;89(1):206-15. doi: 10.2106/JBJS.F.00633.
citation: Dahm P, Poolman RW, Bhandari M, Fesperman SF, Baum J, Kosiak B, Carrick T, Preminger GM; American Urological Association Membership. Perceptions and competence in evidence-based medicine: a survey of the American Urological Association Membership. J Urol. 2009 Feb;181(2):767-77. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2008.10.031. Epub 2008 Dec 16.