Reviews
Serious Games for Healthcare Professional Training: A Systematic Review
Author(s):
Aneeqa Ijaz*, Muhammad Yasir Khan, Syed Mustafa Ali, Junaid Qadir and Maged N. Kamel Boulos
Objectives: This review aims to evaluate the performance of serious games as a training tool compared to other methods of continued professional development (CPD) and continued medical education (CME) for healthcare professionals.
Methods: PubMed, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Web of Science, World Health Organization (WHO) International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP), PLOS ONE, ClinicalTrials. gov, were searched for available randomized control trials (RCTs) up to June 2018. We used the CASP (Critical Appraisal Skills Programme) tool to evaluate the quality of RCTs.
Results: The search identified 1430 papers; among them, 119 wer.. Read More»