Testing a Novel Deliberate Practice Intervention to Improve Diagnostic Reasoning in Trauma Triage: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Diagnostic errors made during triage at nontrauma centers contribute to preventable morbidity and mortality after injury.

Objective

To test the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effect of a novel deliberate practice intervention to improve diagnostic reasoning in trauma triage.

Design, setting, and participants

This pilot randomized clinical trial was conducted online in a national convenience sample of 72 emergency physicians between January 1 and March 31, 2022, without follow-up.

Interventions

Participants were randomly assigned to receive either usual care (ie, passive control) or a deliberate practice intervention, consisting of 3 weekly, 30-minute, video-conferenced sessions during which physicians played a customized, theory-based vi

SUBMITTER: Mohan D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10193186 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature