Healthy Volunteer
Conditions
Keywords
Surveys and Questionnaires, Clinical Competence, Orthopedics, Attitude of Health Personnel, Evidence-based medicine
Brief summary
The purpose of this randomized controlled trial is to clarify whether providing translated evidence summary (Advanced Clinical Evidence (ACE) reports from OrthoEvidence) will increase the access to the summary compared to providing the original version of evidence summary among Japanese orthopaedic surgeons
Detailed description
The investigators will conduct the survey regarding baseline characteristics, barriers and familiality to evidence-based medicine by online. After the survey, the participants will be randomly assigned to receive either the original version of ACE reports or Japanese version of ACE reports. The pdf of each ACE report will be provided to the participants through an email link. Twenty reports will be sent over 4 weeks period. After that, the investigators will conduct another survey regarding the reports.
Interventions
OTHERJapanese-translated evidence summaries (Advanced Clinical Evidence report from OrthoEvidence)
Participants will receive emails with the link to Japanese-translated version of evidence summaries.
OTHEREnglish evidence summaries (Advanced Clinical Evidence report from OrthoEvidence)
Participants will receive emails with the link to English version of evidence summaries.
Sponsors
Japanese Society for Fracture Repair
OrthoEvidence
McMaster University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
1. Member of Japanese Society for Fracture Repair (JSFR) 2. Spend at least 20% of their time in clinical practice 3. Non-native speaker of English 4. Has regular access to internet 5. Prefer to read Japanese-translated material, if there are both translated and English version of the same material.
Exclusion criteria
We will exclude surgeons who cannot provide informed consent.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of access to evidence summaries | Four weeks (28 days) after the commencement of the trial | Total number of access to evidence summaries |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Self-rated score of understanding the contents of the provided materials | Within four weeks after the end of intervention | Five-point Likert scale in understanding the contents of provided materials, evaluated by the participants (higher scores means better outcome) |
| Self-rated score in changing their practice based on the contents of the materials | Within four weeks after the end of intervention | Five-point Likert scale in changing their practice based on the contents of the materials evaluated by the participants (higher scores means better outcome) |
Countries
Canada
Outcome results
None listed