Effect of Smartphone App-Based Education on Clinician Prescribing Habits in a Learning Health Care System: A Randomized Cluster Crossover Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Effective methods for engaging clinicians in continuing education for learning-based practice improvement remain unknown.

Objective

To determine whether a smartphone-based app using spaced education with retrieval practice is an effective method to increase evidence-based practice.

Design, setting, and participants

A prospective, unblinded, single-center, crossover randomized clinical trial was conducted at a single academic medical center from January 6 to April 24, 2020. Vanderbilt University Medical Center clinicians prescribing intravenous fluids were invited to participate in this study.

Interventions

All clinicians received two 4-week education modules: 1 on prescribing intravenous fluids and 1 on prescribing opioid and nonopioid medications (c

SUBMITTER: McEvoy MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9327570 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature