| Trial name or title |
Multifaceted Online Interventions to Increase the Quantity and Quality of Searching for Current Best Evidence to Answer Clinical Questions |
| Methods |
Allocation: randomized Intervention model: factorial assignment Masking: single blind (investigator) |
| Participants |
900 anticipated:
postgraduate and faculty physicians working in the teaching hospitals and clinics of the Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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| Interventions |
Intervention A ‐ online clinical questions recorder
Intervention B ‐ online evidence retrieval coach
Intervention C ‐ online audit and feedback
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| Outcomes |
Primary:
utilization of evidence‐based resources as measured by rate of searches/month/user (time frame: 6 months). Each clinician participating in the trial has a personal online account in MacPLUS Federated Search (MPFS). When they are signed on their account, the system continuously tracks their searches and utilization of individual resources. The researchers we will record their utilization over the full duration of the trial (6 months) and analyze it at the end
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| Starting date |
January 2014 |
| Contact information |
Robert B Haynes, bhaynes@mcmaster.ca |
| Notes |
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