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Characteristics of Academic Detailing: Results of a Literature Review.
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28 citing papers in PubMed.
- Intervention to Improve Psychosocial Care for People with Type 2 Diabetes.Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM · 2025Trial
- Academic Detailing Compared with Group Meetings to Change Drug Prescribing for Type 2 Diabetes-A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of general internal medicine · 2024Trial
- Integrated solutions for sustainable fall prevention in primary care: a pragmatic hybrid-type 2 mixed methods implementation and effectiveness study.Frontiers in public health · 2024Trial
- Implementation of an academic detailing intervention to increase naloxone distribution and foster engagement in harm reduction from the community clinician.Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhATrial
- Enhancing Naloxone Distribution for Opioid Users in the USA: A Cost-Utility Analysis of Academic Detailing to Clinicians.Applied health economics and health policy · 2025Article
- Adaptations and modifications to the 15-method in Danish general practice classified using the framework for reporting adaptations and modifications to evidence-based interventions (FRAME).Addiction science & clinical practice · 2025Article
- Determinants of implementing the 15-method in Danish general practice using the consolidated framework for implementation science.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2025Article
- Core and modifiable components of academic detailing: demonstration of implementation strategy development, tailoring, and documentation process.Frontiers in health services · 2025Article
- Exploring virtual delivery of academic detailing to general practitioners compared with in-person delivery: a qualitative study.BMJ open quality · 2024Article
- Academic Detailing as a Health Information Technology Implementation Method: Supporting the Design and Implementation of an Emergency Department-Based Clinical Decision Support Tool to Prevent Future Falls.JMIR human factors · 2024Article
- Changing hearts and minds: theorizing how, when, and under what conditions three social influence implementation strategies work.Frontiers in health services · 2024Article
- 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
- Exploring patients' adherence to antibiotics by understanding their health knowledge and relational communication in encounters with pharmacists and physicians.Exploratory research in clinical and social pharmacy · 2023Article
- Understanding State-Level Variations in Implementing Academic Detailing for Prescribing Opioids: Findings from 11 States Within the United States.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2022Article
- Implementation of a Web-Based Tool for Shared Decision-making in Lung Cancer Screening: Mixed Methods Quality Improvement Evaluation.JMIR human factors · 2022Article
- Interventions to Increase Leukocyte Testing during Treatment with Dimethyl Fumarate.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Planning Implementation Success of Syncope Clinical Practice Guidelines in the Emergency Department Using CFIR Framework.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2021Review
- Development of an Instrument to Assess the Perceived Effectiveness of Academic Detailing.The Journal of continuing education in the health professions · 2020Article
- Changing prescribing behaviours with educational outreach: an overview of evidence and practice.BMC medical education · 2019Review
- Improving Nursing Staff Attitudes toward Vaccinations through Academic Detailing: The HProImmune Questionnaire as a Tool for Medical Management.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundAcademic detailing is an evidence-based strategy to improve patient care. Efforts to understand the intervention and to use it strategically require an understanding of its important characteristics. A recent systematic review and a subsequent reporting framework call for more accurate and complete reporting of continuing medical education interventions.
objectivesBuilding on a previously published systematic review of 69 studies, we sought to determine how an expanded set of 106 academic detailing studies, including many recently published articles, fared with respect to reporting of important data about this intervention.
methodsWe conducted a search of MEDLINE, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (clinical) database, and Scopus, from which we identified 38 additional randomized controlled trials published from August 2007 through March 2013. Including the original 69 studies, we abstracted 106 available English-language studies and quantitatively analyzed information about 4 important characteristics of academic detailing: content of visits, clinicians being visited, communication process underlying visits, and outreach workers making visits.
resultsWe found considerable variation (36.5%-100%) in the extent of reporting intervention characteristics, especially about the communication process underlying visits and the outreach workers making visits. The best overall documentation of intervention characteristics of any single study was 68%. Results also demonstrate wide variation in the approach to academic detailing.
conclusionsThis study demonstrates the need for a standardized approach to collecting and reporting data about academic detailing interventions. Our findings also highlight opportunities for using academic detailing more effectively in research and quality-improvement efforts.
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