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Trial reportBMC medical education2023

Can clinical decision support systems be an asset in medical education? An experimental approach.

Sean D Kafke, Adelheid Kuhlmey, Johanna Schuster, Stefan Blüher, Constanze Czimmeck, Jan C Zoellick, Pascal Grosse

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in BMC medical education, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Sean D KafkeCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany. sean-duncan.kafke@charite.de.
Adelheid KuhlmeyCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Johanna SchusterCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Stefan BlüherCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Constanze CzimmeckCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Jan C Zoellick *Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Pascal Grosse *Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundDiagnostic accuracy is one of the major cornerstones of appropriate and successful medical decision-making. Clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) have recently been used to facilitate physician's diagnostic considerations. However, to date, little is known about the potential assets of CDSS for medical students in an educational setting. The purpose of our study was to explore the usefulness of CDSSs for medical students assessing their diagnostic performances and the influence of such software on students' trust in their own diagnostic abilities.

methodsBased on paper cases students had to diagnose two different patients using a CDSS and conventional methods such as e.g. textbooks, respectively. Both patients had a common disease, in one setting the clinical presentation was a typical one (tonsillitis), in the other setting (pulmonary embolism), however, the patient presented atypically. We used a 2x2x2 between- and within-subjects cluster-randomised controlled trial to assess the diagnostic accuracy in medical students, also by changing the order of the used resources (CDSS first or second).

resultsMedical students in their 4

conclusionsMedical students in their 4

Indexed as

Decision Support Systems, ClinicalEducation, MedicalStudents, MedicalClinical Decision-MakingHumansSoftwareClinical decision support systemsDiagnosisMedical decision-makingMedical students

Identifiers

PMID37568144
PMCPMC10416486

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