TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluating online continuing medical education seminars
T2 - Evidence for improving clinical practices
AU - Weston, Christine M.
AU - Sciamanna, Christopher
AU - Nash, David B.
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2008/12
Y1 - 2008/12
N2 - The purpose of this study was to evaluate the potential for online continuing medical education (CME) seminars to improve quality of care. Primary care physicians (113) participated in a randomized controlled trial to evaluate an online CME series. Physicians were randomized to view either a seminar about type 2 diabetes or a seminar about systolic heart failure. Following the seminar, physicians were presented with 4 clinical vignettes and asked to describe what tests, treatments, counseling, or referrals they would recommend. Physicians who viewed the seminars were significantly more likely to recommend guideline-consistent care to patients in the vignettes. For example, physicians who viewed the diabetes seminar were significantly more likely to order an eye exam for diabetes patients (63%) compared with physicians in the control group (27%). For some guidelines there were no group differences. These results provide early evidence of the effectiveness of online CME programs to improve physician clinical practice. (Am J Med Qual 2008;23:475-483).
AB - The purpose of this study was to evaluate the potential for online continuing medical education (CME) seminars to improve quality of care. Primary care physicians (113) participated in a randomized controlled trial to evaluate an online CME series. Physicians were randomized to view either a seminar about type 2 diabetes or a seminar about systolic heart failure. Following the seminar, physicians were presented with 4 clinical vignettes and asked to describe what tests, treatments, counseling, or referrals they would recommend. Physicians who viewed the seminars were significantly more likely to recommend guideline-consistent care to patients in the vignettes. For example, physicians who viewed the diabetes seminar were significantly more likely to order an eye exam for diabetes patients (63%) compared with physicians in the control group (27%). For some guidelines there were no group differences. These results provide early evidence of the effectiveness of online CME programs to improve physician clinical practice. (Am J Med Qual 2008;23:475-483).
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U2 - 10.1177/1062860608325266
DO - 10.1177/1062860608325266
M3 - Article
C2 - 19001103
AN - SCOPUS:55649095534
SN - 1062-8606
VL - 23
SP - 475
EP - 483
JO - American Journal of Medical Quality
JF - American Journal of Medical Quality
IS - 6
ER -
