Online training improves medical students' ability to recognise when a person is dying: The ORaClES randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recognising dying is a key clinical skill for doctors, yet there is little training.

Aim

To assess the effectiveness of an online training resource designed to enhance medical students' ability to recognise dying.

Design

Online multicentre double-blind randomised controlled trial (NCT03360812). The training resource for the intervention group was developed from a group of expert palliative care doctors' weightings of various signs/symptoms to recognise dying. The control group received no training.

Setting/participants

Participants were senior UK medical students. They reviewed 92 patient summaries and provided a probability of death within 72 hours (0% certain survival - 100% certain death) pre, post, and 2 weeks after the training. Primary outco

SUBMITTER: White N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6952943 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature