ReviewBMJ (Clinical research ed.)1991
Effects of feedback of information on clinical practice: a review.
Review in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 1991. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 104 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
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Who cites it
104 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Manually-generated reminders delivered on paper: effects on professional practice and patient outcomes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Information Technology-Based Interventions to Improve Drug-Drug Interaction Outcomes: A Systematic Review on Features and Effects.Journal of medical systems · 2017Pooled it
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- High performing hospitals: a qualitative systematic review of associated factors and practical strategies for improvement.BMC health services research · 2015Pooled it
- Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012Pooled it
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- Does telling people what they have been doing change what they do? A systematic review of the effects of audit and feedback.Quality & safety in health care · 2006Pooled it
- Interventions used in disease management programmes for patients with chronic illness-which ones work? Meta-analysis of published reports.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2002Pooled it
- No magic bullets: a systematic review of 102 trials of interventions to improve professional practice.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 1995Pooled it
- Has general practitioner computing made a difference to patient care? A systematic review of published reports.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1995Pooled it
- Implementation of an audit with feedback knowledge translation intervention to promote medication error reporting in health care: a protocol.Implementation science : IS · 2015Trial
- Randomized trial of enhanced profiling in substance abuse treatment.Administration and policy in mental health · 2011Trial
- Implementing referral guidelines: lessons from a negative outcome cluster randomised factorial trial in general practice.BMC family practice · 2006Trial
- Evidence based educational outreach visits: effects on prescriptions of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2002Trial
- Feedback of patients' evaluations of general practice care: a randomised trial.Quality in health care : QHC · 2001Trial
- Practice visits as a tool in quality improvement: mutual visits and feedback by peers compared with visits and feedback by non-physician observers.Quality in health care : QHC · 1999Trial
- Randomised controlled trial of effect of feedback on general practitioners' prescribing in Australia.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1999Trial
- The impact of physician bonuses, enhanced fees, and feedback on childhood immunization coverage rates.American journal of public health · 1999Trial
- Changing preventive practice: a controlled trial on the effects of outreach visits to organise prevention of cardiovascular disease.Quality in health care : QHC · 1997Trial
- Electronically distributed, computer-generated, individualized feedback enhances the use of a computerized practice guideline.Proceedings : a conference of the American Medical Informatics Association. AMIA Fall Symposium · 1996Trial
44 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
objectiveTo establish what is known about the role of feedback of statistical information in changing clinical practice.
designReview of 36 studies of interventions entailing the use of statistical information for audit or practice review, which used a formal research design. SUBJECTS: Papers identified from computer searches of medical and health service management publications, of which 36 describing studies of interventions designed to influence clinical care and including information feedback from clinical or administrative data systems were reviewed.
main outcome measuresEvidence for effect of information feedback on change in clinical practice.
resultsInformation feedback was most likely to influence clinical practice if it was part of strategy to target decision makers who had already agreed to review their practice. A more direct effect was discernable if the information was presented close to the time of decision making. The questions of the optimum layout and quantity of information were not addressed; the 36 papers were insufficient for defining good formats for information to be used for audit or quality assurance.
conclusionsGiven the cost of information processing and the current emphasis on closing the audit loop in the health services, it is important that the use of information in the audit process should be critically evaluated.
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