Assessing Complex Emergency Management with Clinical Case-Vignettes: A Validation Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate whether responses to dynamic case-vignettes accurately reflect actual practices in complex emergency situations. We hypothesized that when obstetricians were faced with vignette of emergency situation identical to one they previously managed, they would report the management strategy they actually used. On the other hand, there is no reason to suppose that their response to a vignette based on a source case managed by another obstetrician would be the same as the actual management.

Methods

A multicenter vignette-based study was used in 7 French maternity units. We chose the example of severe postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) to study the use of case-vignettes for assessing the management of complex situations. We developed dynamic case-vignettes describing in

SUBMITTER: Rousseau A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4575125 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature