Evaluation of a Sickle Cell Disease Educational Website for Emergency Providers.

ABSTRACT: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a complex multisystem debilitating disease. Despite its complexity, health care providers who are not SCD experts receive little formal education on SCD. An open-access, educational website, "Emergency Department Sickle Cell Disease: Crisis Management and Beyond," was created to provide education about SCD to emergency department (ED) providers who are not SCD experts but who provide care for patients with SCD. Electronic surveys were used to conduct a formal evaluation of the accuracy and relevance of the website's content, as well as the effectiveness of the education modules in improving knowledge among health care providers. The evaluation consisted of (1) individual module pre- and post-knowledge assessment, (2) content validity assessment of educational m

SUBMITTER: Kayle M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4926999 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature