Durable improvements in prostate cancer screening from online spaced education a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Prostate cancer screening with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is frequently performed, counter to clinical practice guidelines.

Background

It was hypothesized that an e-mail-based intervention termed "spaced education" could reduce clinicians' inappropriate screening for prostate cancer.

Design

The study was conducted as an RCT.

Setting/participants

The study involved 95 primary care clinicians in eight Veterans Affairs medical centers from January 2007 to February 2009.

Intervention

Participants were randomized into two cohorts: spaced education clinicians received four isomorphic cycles of nine e-mails over 36 weeks (zero to two e-mails per week), whereas control clinicians received no intervention. Each e-mail presented a clinical scenario an

SUBMITTER: Kerfoot BP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2994103 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature