Trial reportCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2003
Improving on-line skills and knowledge. A randomized trial of teaching rural physicians to use on-line medical information.
Trial report in Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.
- Online Digital Education for Postregistration Training of Medical Doctors: Systematic Review by the Digital Health Education Collaboration.Journal of medical Internet research · 2019Pooled it
- Interventions to increase the use of electronic health information by healthcare practitioners to improve clinical practice and patient outcomes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- Electronic retrieval of health information by healthcare providers to improve practice and patient care.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2009Pooled it
- Interventions for promoting information and communication technologies adoption in healthcare professionals.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2009Pooled it
- A training intervention to improve information management in primary care.Family medicine · 2008Trial
- A tool for evaluating the potential for cost-effective outcomes measurement.International journal of general medicine · 2012Article
- Information-seeking behaviors of practitioners in a primary care practice-based research network (PBRN).Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2005Article
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Authors and funding
6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess the change in frequency and methods with which a pilot group of rural physicians consulted on-line medical resources before and after an educational intervention.
designPhysicians were randomly assigned to an educational intervention or control group. Self-administered questionnaires were completed before and 3 months after the intervention.
settingRural practices in southwestern Ontario.
participantsEighty rural (defined as a population of 15000 or less) physicians in southwestern Ontario, with a computer with Internet access.
interventionsIndividualized 3-hour training session on using the World Wide Web to research patient-related questions.
main outcome measuresFrequency of access and comfort with on-line medical information were compared after intervention with baseline data using the Wilcoxon two-sample test.
resultsAt follow up, the intervention group showed a significant improvement over the control group in their frequency of accessing the World Wide Web to address patient-related questions (P = .009), in their comfort level in using on-line databases (P = .032), and in their frequency of accessing on-line databases (P = .044).
conclusionRural physicians' comfort and competence in using computers to address patient problems can be improved by an individualized 3-hour training session.
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12675544PMC2214189W1933090351What OpenQuestion holds
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