The usefulness of a novel patient management decision aid to improve clinical decision-making skills in final year chiropractic students.

ABSTRACT: Background:The process of developing patient management plans requires a series of clinical decision-making skills that can take years in practice to develop. For the inexperienced practitioner, providing a logical, systematic patient management framework may assist in clinical scenarios and accelerate their decision-making skill development. The purpose of this study was to assess whether a novel clinical management decision aid would improve the management decision-making of chiropractic students. Methods:A prospective before and after study tracked chiropractic master degree students in their final year of study across a 10-week period from February-May, 2017. Case-based assessments were performed at baseline, after initial exposure to the decision aid, and after repeated exposure over

SUBMITTER: Hobbs M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6751823 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature