Simulation-Based Education for Physicians to Increase Oral Anticoagulants in Hospitalized Elderly Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

Autor: Franchi, C, Antoniazzi, S, Ardoino, I, Proietti, M, Marcucci, M, Santalucia, P, Monzani, V, Mannucci, Pm, Nobili, A, Bosari, S, Brignoto, B, Nicolis, E, Fenoglio, Lm, Melchio, R, Fabris, F, Sartori, Mt, Manfredini, R, De Giorgi, A, Fabbian, F, Biolo, G, Zanetti, M, Altamura, N, Sabba, C, Suppressa, P, Bandiera, F, Usai, CINZIA PATRIZIA, Murialdo, G, Fezza, Fabrizio, Marra, A, Castelli, F, Cattaneo, F, Beccati, V, di Minno, G, Tufano, A, Contaldi, P, Lupattelli, G, Bianconi, V, Cappellini, D, Hu, C, Minonzio, F, Fargion, S, Burdick, L, Francione, P, Peyvandi, F, Rossio, R, Colombo, Gherardo, Ceriani, G, Lucchi, T, Brignolo, B, Manfellotto, D, Caridi, I, Corazza, Gr, Miceli, E, Padula, D, Fraternale, G, Guasti, L, Squizzato, A, Maresca, A, Liberato, Nl, Tognin, T, Rozzini, R, Bellucci, Fb, Muscaritoli, M, Molfino, A, Petrillo, E, Dore, M, Raviolo, P, Mete, F, Gino, M, Franceschi, F, Gabrielli, M, Perticone, F, Perticone, M, Bertolotti, M, Mussi, C, Borghi, C, Strocchi, E, Durazzo, M, Fornengo, P, Ruatta, C, Dallegri, F, Ottonello, Lc, Salam, K, Caserza, L, Barbagallo, M, Di Bella, G, Annoni, G, Bruni, Aa, Odetti, P, Nencioni, A, Monacelli, F, Napolitano, A, Brucato, A, Valenti, A, Castellino, P, Zanoli, L, Mazzeo, M
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Cluster randomized trial
Socio-culturale
Administration
Oral

030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Internal medicine and geriatric wards
Intervention (counseling)
Hospital discharge
medicine
Odds Ratio
Cluster Analysis
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Cluster randomised controlled trial
Medical prescription
Simulation based
Simulation Training
Simulation-based education
LS4_7
Aged
Aged
80 and over

business.industry
Anticoagulants
Atrial fibrillation
General Medicine
Odds ratio
medicine.disease
Older people
Oral anticoagulants
SIM-AF trial
Confidence interval
Atrial fibrillation
Cluster randomized trial
Internal medicine and geriatric wards
Older people
Oral anticoagulants
SIM-AF trial
Simulation-based education

Patient Simulation
Stroke
Geriatrics
Emergency medicine
Education
Medical
Continuing

Female
Clinical Competence
business
Popis: Purpose This study was intended to determine whether a simulation-based education addressed to physicians was able to increase the proportion of hospitalized elderly with atrial fibrillation prescribed with oral anticoagulants (OACs) compared with the usual practice. Methods We conducted a cluster randomized trial (from April 2015 to September 2018) on 32 Italian internal medicine and geriatric wards randomized 1:1 to intervention or control arms. The physicians of wards randomized to intervention received a computer-based e-learning tool with clinical scenarios (Dr Sim), and those of wards randomized to control received no formal educational intervention. The primary outcome was the OAC prescription rate at hospital discharge in the intervention and control arms. Results Of 452 patients scrutinized, 247 were included in the analysis. Of them, 186 (75.3%) were prescribed with OACs at hospital discharge. No difference was found between the intervention and control arms in the post-intervention phase (odds ratio, 1.46; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.81-2.64). The differences from the pre- to post-intervention phases in the proportions of patients prescribed with OACs (15.1%; 95% CI, 0%-31.5%) and with direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) (20%; 95% CI, 0%-39.8%) increased more in the intervention than in the control arm. Conclusions This simulation-based course did not succeed in increasing the rate of elderly patients prescribed with OACs at hospital discharge compared with the usual practice. Notwithstanding, over time there was a greater increase in the intervention than in the control arm in the proportion of patients prescribed with OACs and DOACs. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT03188211.
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