Knowledge BasesNCT02508051
Make a Journal Feel as if it Was Mailed Back From the Future
A study testing Article email links and Blog email links in people with Knowledge Bases, run by Yale University.
Trial summary
Optimal patient care hinges on physicians remaining up to date with developing medical knowledge. With ever increasing clinical demands however, the ability of physicians to do this is compromised. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Any ageHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Knowledge Bases
- What is being tested?
- Article email links and Blog email links
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- Yes, some participants may receive a placebo
- How many people
- 0 participants
- Where
- No sites listed yet
- Study dates
- Oct 2015to Feb 2017
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages Any age
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- Member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)
- Must have granted ASA permission to receive email requests
Who cannot join
- Unwillingness to participate in the study
- Inability to read or write
- Younger than 26 years of age
About this study
Official title: Make a Journal Feel as if it Was Mailed Back From the Future Rather Than the Past so the Reader Will be More Likely to Read and Retain Journal Content
Optimal patient care hinges on physicians remaining up to date with developing medical knowledge. With ever increasing clinical demands however, the ability of physicians to do this is compromised. While the structure of journal based reports requires the devotion of significant time to glean emerging medical findings, social media can grab an individual's attention and then direct them to external media sites, so as to obtain more specific and detailed information of emerging medical findings. If medical journals were to fully embrace social media, physicians would have a more time-cost effective means for staying up to date.
Specific aims Using the investigator's experience as editors of two medical education based blogs, the Specific Aims of this project is to determine if a combined journal and social media-based education strategy will be more likely to continuously engage physicians. The investigators will specifically test whether physicians who access a medical journal blog will have better knowledge of the information contained in a journal, measured by CME-based questions of journal articles than they would if they only received links to the journal's site.
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Specifically, the investigators will randomize participants into 3 groups with all interventions done by e-mail: group 1 is the usual care group, and will receive no intervention except for a reminder every six months to take a test of journal-based Continuing Medical Education (CME) questions from 2 anesthesiology journals; group 2 will get e-mailed web links to different specific articles, including articles on which the CME questions are based, published in 2 anesthesiology journals Monday through Friday with a reminder to take the same test every six months; and group 3 will get e-mailed web links to blogs Monday through Friday based on the same specific articles as in group 2; each daily blog will focus on a specific article, including articles on which CME questions are based, the blogs will have web links to the articles on which they are based and every six months group 3 will get a reminder to take the same test. This will continue for 2 years' duration. Every six months, the investigators will assess knowledge of material contained in the two journals using CME material from the journals.
The investigators hypothesize that those participants randomized to group 3, the group that will receive web links to blogs, will stay more informed, as measured by the test score of CME-based questions. The investigators expect that both groups 1, usual care, and 2, e-mailed links to articles, will have a similar low score as the investigators found in a preliminary study of anesthesiologists who were presented with a set of journal-based CME questions.
Public Health Significance. This study will demonstrate the utility of journal based blogs as a support to physicians in their effort to remain up to date with developing medical knowledge.
- Conditions
- Knowledge Bases
- Being tested
- Article email links, Blog email links
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Article email linksBehavioural
Email links to specific articles, published in 2 journals M-Fr with a reminder to take the same test every six month
Blog email linksBehavioural
Emailed web links to blog posts M-Fr based on the same articles as in Email links group; each blog post will focus on a specific article with links to the corresponding article. Every six months group 3 will get a reminder to take the same test.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| No daily emails | No intervention | The usual care group will receive no intervention except for a reminder every six months to take a test of journal-based CME questions from 2 anesthesiology journals |
| Article email links | Placebo comparator | The email link group will get e-mailed web links to different specific articles, including articles on which the CME questions are based, published in 2 anesthesiology journals Monday through Friday with a reminder to take the same test every six months Receives: Behavioral: Article email links |
| Blog email links | Experimental | The experimental group will get e-mailed web links to blogs Monday through Friday based on the same specific articles as in group 2; each daily blog will focus on a specific article, including articles on which CME questions are based, the blogs will have web links to the articles on which they are based and every six months group 3 will get a reminder to take the same test. Receives: Behavioral: Blog email links |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
CME testing
CME testing scores based on CME tests from 2 different anesthesiology journals
Measured: 2 years
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted24 Jul 2015 (estimated)
- Study startOct 2015
- Primary completionFeb 2017
- Study completionFeb 2017
Why it stopped: Never received funding
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (34)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for Knowledge BasesStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by Yale UniversityThe sponsor's other registered studies.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 0 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Yale University
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
- Investigators
- Lance Lichtor, M.D., Principal investigator, Yale University
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT02508051
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 1506016077
- Status last verified
- Feb 2017
- First submitted
- 23 Jul 2015
- Last updated
- 3 Mar 2017
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
Publications
Ende J. Learning about learning. J Gen Intern Med. 1995 Mar;10(3):172-3. doi: 10.1007/BF02599678. No abstract available.
PubMed 7769477Weil E, Tu JV. Quality of congestive heart failure treatment at a Canadian teaching hospital. CMAJ. 2001 Aug 7;165(3):284-7.
PubMed 11517643Antonelli Incalzi R, Pedone C, Pahor M, Onder G, Carbonin PU; Gruppo Italiano di Farmacovigilanza nell'Anziano. Trends in prescribing ACE-inhibitors for congestive heart failure in elderly people. Aging Clin Exp Res. 2002 Dec;14(6):516-21. doi: 10.1007/BF03327353.
PubMed 12674493Koczka CP, Geraldino-Pardilla LB, Goodman AJ, Gress FG. A nationwide survey of gastroenterologists and their acquisition of knowledge. Am J Gastroenterol. 2013 Jul;108(7):1033-5. doi: 10.1038/ajg.2012.309.
PubMed 23820990White JA, Anderson P. Learning by internal medicine residents: differences and similarities of perceptions by residents and faculty. J Gen Intern Med. 1995 Mar;10(3):126-32. doi: 10.1007/BF02599665.
PubMed 7769468Schein M, Paladugu R, Sutija VG, Wise L. What American surgeons read: a survey of a thousand Fellows of the American College of Surgeons. Curr Surg. 2000 May 1;57(3):252-258. doi: 10.1016/s0149-7944(00)00177-x.
PubMed 10930623Ahmadi-Abhari S, Soltani A, Hosseinpanah F. Knowledge and attitudes of trainee physicians regarding evidence-based medicine: a questionnaire survey in Tehran, Iran. J Eval Clin Pract. 2008 Oct;14(5):775-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2008.01073.x.
PubMed 19018910Nylenna M, Aasland OG. Doctors' learning habits: CME activities among Norwegian physicians over the last decade. BMC Med Educ. 2007 May 8;7:10. doi: 10.1186/1472-6920-7-10.
PubMed 17488507Kitchin DR, Applegate KE. Learning radiology a survey investigating radiology resident use of textbooks, journals, and the internet. Acad Radiol. 2007 Sep;14(9):1113-20. doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2007.06.002.
PubMed 17707320Lai CJ, Aagaard E, Brandenburg S, Nadkarni M, Wei HG, Baron R. Brief report: Multiprogram evaluation of reading habits of primary care internal medicine residents on ambulatory rotations. J Gen Intern Med. 2006 May;21(5):486-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2006.00432.x.
PubMed 16704393Hinkson CR, Kaur N, Sipes MW, Pierson DJ. Impact of offering continuing respiratory care education credit hours on staff participation in a respiratory care journal club. Respir Care. 2011 Mar;56(3):303-5. doi: 10.4187/respcare.00952. Epub 2010 Nov 16.
PubMed 21235846Bero L, Rennie D. The Cochrane Collaboration. Preparing, maintaining, and disseminating systematic reviews of the effects of health care. JAMA. 1995 Dec 27;274(24):1935-8. doi: 10.1001/jama.274.24.1935. No abstract available.
PubMed 8568988Antman EM, Lau J, Kupelnick B, Mosteller F, Chalmers TC. A comparison of results of meta-analyses of randomized control trials and recommendations of clinical experts. Treatments for myocardial infarction. JAMA. 1992 Jul 8;268(2):240-8.
PubMed 1535110Straus S, Haynes RB. Managing evidence-based knowledge: the need for reliable, relevant and readable resources. CMAJ. 2009 Apr 28;180(9):942-5. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.081697. No abstract available.
PubMed 19398741Weingart SD, Faust JS. Future evolution of traditional journals and social media medical education. Emerg Med Australas. 2014 Feb;26(1):62-6. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.12192. No abstract available.
PubMed 24495063
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 3 Mar 2017. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Make a Journal Feel as if it Was Mailed Back From the Future Rather Than the Past so the Reader Will be More Likely to Read and Retain Journal Content
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT02508051
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- 1506016077
- Conditions
- Knowledge Bases
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- WithdrawnReason stopped: Never received funding
- Enrolment
- 0 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Yale UniversityUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- Oct 2015
- Primary completion
- Feb 2017 (actual)
- Study completion
- Feb 2017 (actual)
- First posted
- 24 Jul 2015 (estimated)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
Optimal patient care hinges on physicians remaining up to date with developing medical knowledge. With ever increasing clinical demands however, the ability of physicians to do this is compromised. While the structure of journal based reports requires the devotion of significant time to glean emerging medical findings, social media can grab an individual's attention and then direct them to external media sites, so as to obtain more specific and detailed information of emerging medical findings. If medical journals were to fully embrace social media, physicians would have a more time-cost effective means for staying up to date.
Specific aims Using the investigator's experience as editors of two medical education based blogs, the Specific Aims of this project is to determine if a combined journal and social media-based education strategy will be more likely to continuously engage physicians. The investigators will specifically test whether physicians who access a medical journal blog will have better knowledge of the information contained in a journal, measured by CME-based questions of journal articles than they would if they only received links to the journal's site.
Specifically, the investigators will randomize participants into 3 groups with all interventions done by e-mail: group 1 is the usual care group, and will receive no intervention except for a reminder every six months to take a test of journal-based Continuing Medical Education (CME) questions from 2 anesthesiology journals; group 2 will get e-mailed web links to different specific articles, including articles on which the CME questions are based, published in 2 anesthesiology journals Monday through Friday with a reminder to take the same test every six months; and group 3 will get e-mailed web links to blogs Monday through Friday based on the same specific articles as in group 2; each daily blog will focus on a specific article, including articles on which CME questions are based, the blogs will have web links to the articles on which they are based and every six months group 3 will get a reminder to take the same test. This will continue for 2 years' duration. Every six months, the investigators will assess knowledge of material contained in the two journals using CME material from the journals.
The investigators hypothesize that those participants randomized to group 3, the group that will receive web links to blogs, will stay more informed, as measured by the test score of CME-based questions. The investigators expect that both groups 1, usual care, and 2, e-mailed links to articles, will have a similar low score as the investigators found in a preliminary study of anesthesiologists who were presented with a set of journal-based CME questions.
Public Health Significance. This study will demonstrate the utility of journal based blogs as a support to physicians in their effort to remain up to date with developing medical knowledge.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 3
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| No daily emails | No intervention | –The usual care group will receive no intervention except for a reminder every six months to take a test of journal-based CME questions from 2 anesthesiology journals |
| Article email links | Placebo comparator | Behavioral: Article email linksThe email link group will get e-mailed web links to different specific articles, including articles on which the CME questions are based, published in 2 anesthesiology journals Monday through Friday with a reminder to take the same test every six months |
| Blog email links | Experimental | Behavioral: Blog email linksThe experimental group will get e-mailed web links to blogs Monday through Friday based on the same specific articles as in group 2; each daily blog will focus on a specific article, including articles on which CME questions are based, the blogs will have web links to the articles on which they are based and every six months group 3 will get a reminder to take the same test. |
Who may qualify
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (2 listed)
- Member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)
- Must have granted ASA permission to receive email requests
Key exclusion criteria (3 listed)
- Unwillingness to participate in the study
- Inability to read or write
- Younger than 26 years of age
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Article email linksEmail links to specific articles, published in 2 journals M-Fr with a reminder to take the same test every six month | Behavioural | Article email links |
| Blog email linksEmailed web links to blog posts M-Fr based on the same articles as in Email links group; each blog post will focus on a specific article with links to the corresponding article. Every six months group 3 will get a reminder to take the same test. | Behavioural | Blog email links |
Primary outcome
CME testing
Time frame: 2 years
CME testing scores based on CME tests from 2 different anesthesiology journals
Results and safety
The study was withdrawn before enrolling participants, so there are no results.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 3 Mar 2017.
- Background: PubMed 7769477Ende J. Learning about learning. J Gen Intern Med. 1995 Mar;10(3):172-3. doi: 10.1007/BF02599678. No abstract available.
- Background: PubMed 11517643Weil E, Tu JV. Quality of congestive heart failure treatment at a Canadian teaching hospital. CMAJ. 2001 Aug 7;165(3):284-7.
- Background: PubMed 12674493Antonelli Incalzi R, Pedone C, Pahor M, Onder G, Carbonin PU; Gruppo Italiano di Farmacovigilanza nell'Anziano. Trends in prescribing ACE-inhibitors for congestive heart failure in elderly people. Aging Clin Exp Res. 2002 Dec;14(6):516-21. doi: 10.1007/BF03327353.
- Background: PubMed 23820990Koczka CP, Geraldino-Pardilla LB, Goodman AJ, Gress FG. A nationwide survey of gastroenterologists and their acquisition of knowledge. Am J Gastroenterol. 2013 Jul;108(7):1033-5. doi: 10.1038/ajg.2012.309.
- Background: PubMed 7769468White JA, Anderson P. Learning by internal medicine residents: differences and similarities of perceptions by residents and faculty. J Gen Intern Med. 1995 Mar;10(3):126-32. doi: 10.1007/BF02599665.
- Background: PubMed 10930623Schein M, Paladugu R, Sutija VG, Wise L. What American surgeons read: a survey of a thousand Fellows of the American College of Surgeons. Curr Surg. 2000 May 1;57(3):252-258. doi: 10.1016/s0149-7944(00)00177-x.
- Background: PubMed 19018910Ahmadi-Abhari S, Soltani A, Hosseinpanah F. Knowledge and attitudes of trainee physicians regarding evidence-based medicine: a questionnaire survey in Tehran, Iran. J Eval Clin Pract. 2008 Oct;14(5):775-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2008.01073.x.
- Background: PubMed 17488507Nylenna M, Aasland OG. Doctors' learning habits: CME activities among Norwegian physicians over the last decade. BMC Med Educ. 2007 May 8;7:10. doi: 10.1186/1472-6920-7-10.
- Background: PubMed 17707320Kitchin DR, Applegate KE. Learning radiology a survey investigating radiology resident use of textbooks, journals, and the internet. Acad Radiol. 2007 Sep;14(9):1113-20. doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2007.06.002.
- Background: PubMed 16704393Lai CJ, Aagaard E, Brandenburg S, Nadkarni M, Wei HG, Baron R. Brief report: Multiprogram evaluation of reading habits of primary care internal medicine residents on ambulatory rotations. J Gen Intern Med. 2006 May;21(5):486-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2006.00432.x.
- Background: PubMed 21235846Hinkson CR, Kaur N, Sipes MW, Pierson DJ. Impact of offering continuing respiratory care education credit hours on staff participation in a respiratory care journal club. Respir Care. 2011 Mar;56(3):303-5. doi: 10.4187/respcare.00952. Epub 2010 Nov 16.
- Background: PubMed 8568988Bero L, Rennie D. The Cochrane Collaboration. Preparing, maintaining, and disseminating systematic reviews of the effects of health care. JAMA. 1995 Dec 27;274(24):1935-8. doi: 10.1001/jama.274.24.1935. No abstract available.
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Lance Lichtor, M.D. principal investigator
Yale University
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Article email links and Blog email links in people with Knowledge Bases, run by Yale University.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 2 inclusion and 3 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: withdrawn, as of the sponsor's last update on 3 Mar 2017. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. Some participants in this study may receive a placebo. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
The study was withdrawn before enrolling participants, so there are no results.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
CME testing (time frame: 2 years). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT02508051, which also lists 34 linked publications.
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 3 Mar 2017.