PMID: 8968293Jan 1, 1996Paper

The effect of structured versus conventional inhaler education in medical housestaff

The Journal of Asthma : Official Journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma
D RebuckK R Chapman

Abstract

Despite the importance of adequate inhaler technique in the care of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, physicians have often been shown to have poor knowledge of correct inhaler use. At present, postgraduate teaching programs appear to leave physicians to acquire inhaler handling skills informally in the context of day-to-day patient care. We undertook the present study to determine if one brief structured educational intervention would be adequate to teach postgraduate physicians inhaler skills that would be retained over long periods of time. We also compared the efficacy of this intervention to traditional education methods. We recruited 52 postgraduate trainees in internal medicine at a large university hospital; 26 were in the educational intervention group and 26 were in the control group. Physicians in the intervention group were asked to respond to a questionnaire on inhaler use and to demonstrate the correct use of a metered-dose inhaler (MDI), an MDI with a pacing chamber and a multidose dry-powder inhaler. These intervention subjects were then instructed on proper inhaler usage by a qualified nurse educator. Eight months later, testing was repeated in the intervention group and was undertaken in the co...Continue Reading

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