Efficacy of educational video game versus traditional educational apps at improving physician decision making in trauma triage: randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether a behavioral intervention delivered through a video game can improve the appropriateness of trauma triage decisions in the emergency department of non-trauma centers.

Design

Randomized clinical trial.

Setting

Online intervention in national sample of emergency medicine physicians who make triage decisions at US hospitals.

Participants

368 emergency medicine physicians primarily working at non-trauma centers. A random sample (n=200) of those with primary outcome data was reassessed at six months.

Interventions

Physicians were randomized in a 1:1 ratio to one hour of exposure to an adventure video game (Night Shift) or apps based on traditional didactic education (myATLS and Trauma Life Support MCQ Review), both on iPads. Nig

SUBMITTER: Mohan D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5725983 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature