Trial reportEuropean journal of clinical pharmacology2003
Pilot study on the feasibility and acceptability of academic detailing in general practice.
Trial report in European journal of clinical pharmacology, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03106142 (Improving Current General Practitioners Care), which is not on this map. Cited by 10 papers.
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Improving Current General Practitioners Care: Feasibility and Effectiveness of a Simple Educational Intervention. Knee Osteoarthritis Care: a Quality Improvement in General Practice
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Academic Detailing Compared with Group Meetings to Change Drug Prescribing for Type 2 Diabetes-A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of general internal medicine · 2024Trial
- The implementation of academic detailing and its effectiveness on appropriate prescribing of pain relief medication: a real-world cluster randomized trial in Belgian general practices.Implementation science : IS · 2018Trial
- A realist synthesis of educational outreach visiting and integrated academic detailing to influence prescribing in ambulatory care: why relationships and dialogue matter.BMJ quality & safety · 2023Article
- Educational outreach visits to improve knee osteoarthritis management in primary care.BMC medical education · 2019Article
- Academic Detailing From Medical Students: Part of a Plan to Emphasize Feedback in One Clerkship.PRiMER (Leawood, Kan.) · 2019Article
- Academic detailers' and general practitioners' views and experiences of their academic detailing visits to improve the quality of analgesic use: process evaluation alongside a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial.BMC health services research · 2017Article
- Academic detailing to increase colorectal cancer screening by primary care practices in Appalachian Pennsylvania.BMC health services research · 2011Article
- Efficacy of a training intervention on the quality of practitioners' decision support for patients deciding about place of care at the end of life: A randomized control trial: Study protocol.BMC palliative care · 2008Article
- Implementing academic detailing for breast cancer screening in underserved communities.Implementation science : IS · 2007Article
- Family physicians' perceptions of academic detailing: a quantitative and qualitative study.BMC medical education · 2007Article
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6 authors.
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Abstract
objectiveTo investigate the feasibility and acceptability of academic detailing in general practice in the North-East-Flanders region of Belgium.
methodsAll local quality groups in the study region were randomly allocated to either (1) two academic detailing visits to the individual members or (2) two academic detailing visits during the meetings of the local quality group. During these visits, the results of a systematic review of the literature on non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents (NSAIDs) were presented.
resultsOf 14 local quality groups, 12 allocated to the individual intervention agreed to participate. Of the 184 physicians invited to receive an academic detailer, 142 had two visits on NSAIDs. One hundred and five physicians gave their opinion on the visits by means of a questionnaire. The great majority of the responders (90%) wished to receive an academic detailer on other topics in the future, with a frequency of two visits per year. Of 13 local quality groups, 12 allocated to the group intervention, with a total number of 192 physicians who agreed to participate. Ten local quality groups with 166 members received the information on NSAIDs. The actual attendance rate per intervention session was approximately two out of three physicians. All 166 physicians of the participating local quality groups were offered an evaluation form, and 79 responded. Of the responders who received the full group intervention, 88% wished to have more academic detailing visits on other topics in their local quality group. A comparison between the evaluation forms of the individual and the group intervention revealed no major differences concerning the acceptability of the intervention.
conclusionThe pilot study showed that academic detailing is feasible in the North-East-Flanders region of Belgium. Both the individual visits and the visits to the local quality groups were rated positively, and a majority of the general practitioners who returned the evaluation questionnaire wished to receive such visits in the future. The structure of the local quality groups implies limitations to the practical organisation of a visit, but requires less time investment than individual visits.
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