Journal article
Decay in blood loss estimation skills after web-based didactic training
Simulation in healthcare : journal of the Society for Medical Simulation, Vol.7(1), pp.18-21
02/2012
DOI: 10.1097/SIH.0b013e318230604f
PMID: 22228284
Abstract
Accuracy in blood loss estimation has been shown to improve immediately after didactic training. The objective of this study was to evaluate retention of blood loss estimation skills 9 months after a didactic web-based training.
Forty-four participants were recruited from a cohort that had undergone web-based training and testing in blood loss estimation. The web-based posttraining test, consisting of pictures of simulated blood loss, was repeated 9 months after the initial training and testing. The primary outcome was the difference in accuracy of estimated blood loss (percent error) at 9 months compared with immediately posttraining.
At the 9-month follow-up, the median error in estimation worsened to -34.6%. Although better than the pretraining error of -47.8% (P = 0.003), the 9-month error was significantly less accurate than the immediate posttraining error of -13.5% (P = 0.01).
Decay in blood loss estimation skills occurs by 9 months after didactic training.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Decay in blood loss estimation skills after web-based didactic training
- Creators
- Paloma Toledo - Department of Anesthesiology, Institute for Healthcare Studies, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA. p-toledo@md.northwestern.eduStanley T EosakulKristopher GoetzCynthia A WongWilliam A Grobman
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Simulation in healthcare : journal of the Society for Medical Simulation, Vol.7(1), pp.18-21
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1097/SIH.0b013e318230604f
- PMID
- 22228284
- ISSN
- 1559-2332
- eISSN
- 1559-713X
- Grant note
- T-32 HS000078 / AHRQ HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/2012
- Academic Unit
- Anesthesia
- Record Identifier
- 9984006356002771
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