Development and evaluation of a brief educational cartoon on trainee clinicians’ awareness of risks of ionising-radiation exposure: a feasibility pre-post intervention study of a novel educational tool to promote patient safety
| Autor: | Pete Thurley, Rob Skelly, Andrew W. Fogarty, Richard Bowker, Imran Bhatti, Rachel Salaman, Russ Law, Ben Young |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Leadership and Management Computed tomography Lower risk 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging Post-intervention Teaching hospital 03 medical and health sciences Patient safety 0302 clinical medicine Physicians Radiation Ionizing patient safety medicine cartoon Humans Medical physics 030212 general & internal medicine Young female lcsh:R5-920 medicine.diagnostic_test communication business.industry Whiteboard Health Policy Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health whiteboard radiation England Feasibility Studies Female lcsh:Medicine (General) Quality Education Report medical education Ionising radiation exposure business |
| Zdroj: | BMJ Open Quality BMJ Open Quality, Vol 9, Iss 4 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2399-6641 |
| Popis: | BackgroundOver recent decades, CT scans have become routinely available and are used in both acute medical and outpatient environments. However, there is a small increase in the risk of adverse consequences, including an increase in the risk of both malignancy and cataracts. Clinicians are often unaware of these facts, and this represents a challenge for medical educators in England, where almost 5 million CT scans are done annually. New whiteboard methodologies permit development of innovative educational tools that are efficient and scalable in communicating simple educational messages that promote patient safety.MethodsA short educational whiteboard cartoon was developed to explore the prior observation that adolescents under the care of paediatricians had a much lower risk of receiving a CT scan than those under the care of clinicians who care for adults. This explored the risks after receiving a CT scan and strategies that can be used to avoid them. The educational cartoon was piloted on new doctors who were attending induction training at a busy teaching hospital.ResultsThe main output was the educational whiteboard cartoon itself. Before the new medical trainees’ induction, 56% (25/45) had received no formal training in radiation awareness, and this decreased to 26% (6/23) after the exposure to the educational cartoon (p=0.02). At baseline, 60% (27/45) of respondents considered that young females were at highest risk from exposure to ionising radiation, and this increased to 87% (20/23) after exposure to the educational cartoon (p=0.06).ConclusionsThis proof-of-concept feasibility study demonstrates that whiteboard cartoons provide a novel and feasible approach to efficiently promote patient safety issues, where a short succinct message is often appropriate. |
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