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Testing the Effectiveness of Night Shift, a Theory-based Customized Video Game
Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh
Summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to test the effect of a video game on the implementation of clinical practice guidelines in trauma triage. The main question it attempts to answer is whether exposure to the game improves compliance with guidelines by emergency medicine physicians working at non-trauma centers in the US. Participants randomized to the intervention condition will be asked to play a customized, theory-based video game for 2 hours immediately after enrollment, and then return to the game for 20 minutes every three months for the next 9 months. Participants in the control condition will receive usual care.
Official title: Testing the Effectiveness of a Theory-based, Customized Video Game at Increasing the Implementation of Clinical Practice Guidelines in Trauma Triage
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
25 Years - 70 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
800
Start Date
2023-11-27
Completion Date
2025-03-30
Last Updated
2026-05-06
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Night Shift
The player must not only manage the patients who present to the emergency department of the hospital, gaining experience with the consequences of trauma triage, but also solve the mystery of the grandfather, gaining an emotional connection with the character and making the feedback that "Andy" receives more relevant. Embedded within Night Shift 2024 is a mini-game (Graveyard Shift) that contains a series of puzzles that reinforce the lessons of the overarching game: transfer severely injured patients expeditiously.
Usual education
Standard continuing medical education, including Advanced Trauma Life Support, and the American Board of Emergency Medicine educational modules (e.g., trauma resuscitation).
Locations (1)
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States