An online spaced-education game among clinicians improves their patients' time to blood pressure control a randomized controlled trial

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 468-474

  Kerfoot, B Price ^a,b   Turchin, Alexander ^b,c,d   Breydo, Eugene ^c   Gagnon, David ^a,e,f   Conlin, Paul R ^a,b,c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d PARTNERS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^e Information   (United States)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational technology; Health services research; Hypertension; Medical education; Patients

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; GAME; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AUDIOVISUAL AID; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECREATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; AUDIOVISUAL AIDS; DECISION MAKING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PHYSICIANS, PRIMARY CARE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 84903587524     PISSN: 19417713     EISSN: 19417705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.113.000814     Document Type: Article

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