OrthoEvidence Trial Assessing Japanese Knowledge Updates (OTAKU)

OrthoEvidence Trial Assessing Japanese Knowledge Updates : Trial of Knowledge Translation Among Japanese Surgeons

The purpose of this randomized controlled trial is to clarify whether providing translated evidence summary (Advanced Clinical Evidence (ACE) reports from OrthoEvidence) will increase the access to the summary compared to providing the original version of evidence summary among Japanese orthopaedic surgeons

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Healthy Volunteer
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Japanese-translated evidence summaries (Advanced Clinical Evidence report from OrthoEvidence); Other: English evidence summaries (Advanced Clinical Evidence report from OrthoEvidence)

Detailed Description

The investigators will conduct the survey regarding baseline characteristics, barriers and familiality to evidence-based medicine by online. After the survey, the participants will be randomly assigned to receive either the original version of ACE reports or Japanese version of ACE reports. The pdf of each ACE report will be provided to the participants through an email link. Twenty reports will be sent over 4 weeks period. After that, the investigators will conduct another survey regarding the reports.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 105
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Canada
  • Ontario
    • Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8S 4E8
      • McMaster University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Member of Japanese Society for Fracture Repair (JSFR)
2. Spend at least 20% of their time in clinical practice
3. Non-native speaker of English
4. Has regular access to internet
5. Prefer to read Japanese-translated material, if there are both translated and English version of the same material.

Exclusion Criteria:

We will exclude surgeons who cannot provide informed consent.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Japanese group; Participants who will receive Japanese-translated version of evidence summaries	Other: Japanese-translated evidence summaries (Advanced Clinical Evidence report from OrthoEvidence); Participants will receive emails with the link to Japanese-translated version of evidence summaries.
Active Comparator: English group; Participants who will receive English version of evidence summaries	Other: English evidence summaries (Advanced Clinical Evidence report from OrthoEvidence); Participants will receive emails with the link to English version of evidence summaries.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of access to evidence summaries	Total number of access to evidence summaries	Four weeks (28 days) after the commencement of the trial

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Self-rated score of understanding the contents of the provided materials	Five-point Likert scale in understanding the contents of provided materials, evaluated by the participants (higher scores means better outcome)	Within four weeks after the end of intervention
Self-rated score in changing their practice based on the contents of the materials	Five-point Likert scale in changing their practice based on the contents of the materials evaluated by the participants (higher scores means better outcome)	Within four weeks after the end of intervention

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: McMaster University
• Collaborators: Japanese Society for Fracture Repair; OrthoEvidence
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Kim Madden, PhD, McMaster University

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Sprague S, Smith C, Bhandari M. OrthoEvidence: A Clinical Resource for Evidence-Based Orthopedics. Orthop Rev (Pavia). 2015 Jun 3;7(2):5762. doi: 10.4081/or.2015.5762. eCollection 2015 Jun 3.
• Poolman RW, Sierevelt IN, Farrokhyar F, Mazel JA, Blankevoort L, Bhandari M. Perceptions and competence in evidence-based medicine: Are surgeons getting better? A questionnaire survey of members of the Dutch Orthopaedic Association. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2007 Jan;89(1):206-15. doi: 10.2106/JBJS.F.00633.
• Dahm P, Poolman RW, Bhandari M, Fesperman SF, Baum J, Kosiak B, Carrick T, Preminger GM; American Urological Association Membership. Perceptions and competence in evidence-based medicine: a survey of the American Urological Association Membership. J Urol. 2009 Feb;181(2):767-77. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2008.10.031. Epub 2008 Dec 16.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): April 8, 2022
• Primary Completion (Actual): July 1, 2022
• Study Completion (Actual): July 29, 2022

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 31, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 10, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): February 22, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 2, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 30, 2022
• Last Verified: July 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Orthopedics; Surveys and Questionnaires; Evidence-based medicine; Clinical Competence; Attitude of Health Personnel
• Other Study ID Numbers: 13493

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No