Prescribing practices for older adults Not Applicable
Conditions
Interventions
The study involves randomly assigning prescribing clinicians (physicians, pharmacists and nurse practitioners) to one of two treatment groups and instructing both to solve 5 identical case-based quest
Sponsors
McMaster University
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Prescribing clinicians
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Health professionals involved in the development of the Geriatric Pharmacology Information Design Materials
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Time required by prescribing clinicians to complete 5 case-based questions about prescribing to older adults (start defined as time when online survey was accessed, stop defined as time when online survey completion button pressed; as measured by Survey Monkey). Measured at a single timepoint. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Measured at a single timepoint: 1. Learning styles measured using the Health Professionals’ Inventory of Learning Styles (H-PILS) 2. Knowledge retention test scores (defined as the % of correct answers to the case-based short answer questions in part 2 of the survey) 3. User-friendliness of the infographics, assessed using a series of closed-ended questions about their reading experience followed by open-ended feedback questions | — |
Countries
Canada
Outcome results
None listed