Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
N0060155844
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
Study hypothesis
Does structured, temporally spaced, revision of lecture material improve long-term memory in junior pharmacists following teaching on the subject of antibiotics? If so, to what extent is recall of information improved and does this warrant the increased resource requirements of structured revision?
Ethics approval
Not provided at time of registration
Study design
Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Hospitals
Trial type
Other
Patient information sheet
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Condition
Methods of post-graduate teaching
Intervention
Randomised, unblinded, educational study with subjects assigned to intervention or control groups
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Specified
Drug names
Primary outcome measures
Comparison of effectiveness of methods of post-graduate teaching. For publication in the educational or scientific literature
Secondary outcome measures
Not provided at time of registration
Overall trial start date
18/01/2005
Overall trial end date
31/08/2005
Reason abandoned
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
60 (Recruitment - London NHS Acute Trusts)
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Not Specified
Gender
Not Specified
Target number of participants
60
Participant exclusion criteria
Does not match inclusion criteria
Recruitment start date
18/01/2005
Recruitment end date
31/08/2005
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
Pharmacy Department
London
SW10 9NH
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
Organisation
Department of Health
Sponsor details
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NL
United Kingdom
+44 20 7307 2622
dhmail@doh.gsi.org.uk
Sponsor type
Government
Website
Funders
Funder type
Hospital/treatment centre
Funder name
Chelsea and Westminster Healthcare NHS Trust (UK)
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Location
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Not provided at time of registration
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Not provided at time of registration
Results - basic reporting
Publication summary
1. Hand, K.S.P. & Jubraj, J. (2007) The impact of spaced review of learning on subsequent recall of information by hospital pharmacists, following teaching on antibiotics. Pharm World Sci 29 (3): p240277