Piloting the global capacity education e-tool: can capacity be taught to health care professionals across different international jurisdictions?

摘要: ABSTRACTDetermining decision-making capacity is part of everyday business for health care professionals working with older adults. We used a modified Delphi approach to develop an inclusive curriculum education e-tool global application and clinical relevance range disciplines. The tool comprised: (i) 25 questions forming "pre-test" the adaptive personalized e-Learning platform; (ii) learning module based on participant's response "pre-test"; (iii) "post-test" (the same baseline questions) test knowledge translation. was tested 31 across Israel (8), Canada (15), Australia (8) from following disciplines: General Practitioners (GP) (19), Internal Medicine (1), Palliative Care GP (2); Physician (2), Geriatrician one each: Psychologist, Occupational Therapist, Psychiatrist, Aged Researcher, Pharmacist. mean pre-test score 19.1/25 (S.D. =1.61; 15-22) post-test 21.7/25 (S.D.= 1.42; 18-24); highly significant improvement in scores (paired t-test P < 0.0001; t=10.81 30 df). This first such pilot study demonstrate that generic principles can be taught different disciplines regardless jurisdiction.