Evidence-based narratives to improve recall of opioid prescribing guidelines: a randomized experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Physicians adopt evidence-based guidelines with variable consistency. Narratives, or stories, offer a novel dissemination strategy for clinical recommendations. The study objective was to compare whether evidence-based narrative versus traditional summary improved recall of opioid prescribing guidelines from the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).

Methods

This was a prospective, randomized controlled experiment to compare whether narrative versus summary promoted short-term recall of six themes contained in the ACEP opioid guideline. The experiment was modeled after the free-recall test, an established technique in studies of memory. At a regional conference, emergency physicians (EPs) were randomized to read either a summary of the guideline (control

SUBMITTER: Kilaru AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4104184 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature