ArticleImplementation science : IS2014
No more 'business as usual' with audit and feedback interventions: towards an agenda for a reinvigorated intervention.
Article in Implementation science : IS, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 5 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 216 papers, 14 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
216 citing papers in PubMed, 14 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Audit and Feedback Interventions for Antibiotic Prescribing in Primary Care: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2025Pooled it
- Identifying behaviour change techniques in 287 randomized controlled trials of audit and feedback interventions targeting practice change among healthcare professionals.Implementation science : IS · 2023Pooled it
- Types and effects of feedback for emergency ambulance staff: a systematic mixed studies review and meta-analysis.BMJ quality & safety · 2023Pooled it
- Nudge interventions to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescribing in primary care: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2023Pooled it
- Effectiveness of clinical dashboards as audit and feedback or clinical decision support tools on medication use and test ordering: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2022Pooled it
- How effective are social norms interventions in changing the clinical behaviours of healthcare workers? A systematic review and meta-analysis.Implementation science : IS · 2021Pooled it
- Understanding how and why audits work in improving the quality of hospital care: A systematic realist review.PloS one · 2021Pooled it
- Can feedback approaches reduce unwarranted clinical variation? A systematic rapid evidence synthesis.BMC health services research · 2020Pooled it
- Strategies to reduce diagnostic errors: a systematic review.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2019Pooled it
- Clinical Performance Feedback Intervention Theory (CP-FIT): a new theory for designing, implementing, and evaluating feedback in health care based on a systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative research.Implementation science : IS · 2019Pooled it
- A systematic review of electronic audit and feedback: intervention effectiveness and use of behaviour change theory.Implementation science : IS · 2017Pooled it
- Barriers to effective management of type 2 diabetes in primary care: qualitative systematic review.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2016Pooled it
- What are effective strategies for the implementation of care bundles on ICUs: a systematic review.Implementation science : IS · 2015Pooled it
- Comparing paper Letters in addition to Emailed Audit and feedback in Refining Asthma treatment to Improve clinical and environmental Results in primary care through a cluster randomised controlled trial: the CLEAR AIR study.BMJ open respiratory research · 2026Trial
- Process evaluation of two large randomized controlled trials to understand factors influencing family physicians' use of antibiotic audit and feedback reports.Implementation science : IS · 2024Trial
- Implementation of an enhanced recovery after surgery protocol for colorectal cancer in a regional hospital network supported by audit and feedback: a stepped wedge, cluster randomised trial.BMJ quality & safety · 2024Trial
- Evaluating a Physician Audit and Feedback Intervention to Increase Clinical Trial Enrollment in Radiation Oncology in a Multisite Tertiary Cancer Center: A Randomized Study.International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics · 2024Trial
- Engagement is a necessary condition to test audit and feedback design features: results of a pragmatic, factorial, cluster-randomized trial with an embedded process evaluation.Implementation science : IS · 2023Trial
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Abstract
backgroundAudit and feedback interventions in healthcare have been found to be effective, but there has been little progress with respect to understanding their mechanisms of action or identifying their key 'active ingredients.' DISCUSSION: Given the increasing use of audit and feedback to improve quality of care, it is imperative to focus further research on understanding how and when it works best. In this paper, we argue that continuing the 'business as usual' approach to evaluating two-arm trials of audit and feedback interventions against usual care for common problems and settings is unlikely to contribute new generalizable findings. Future audit and feedback trials should incorporate evidence- and theory-based best practices, and address known gaps in the literature. SUMMARY: We offer an agenda for high-priority research topics for implementation researchers that focuses on reviewing best practices for designing audit and feedback interventions to optimize effectiveness.
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