Title |
Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes
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Published in |
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, June 2012
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DOI | 10.1002/14651858.cd000259.pub3 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Noah Ivers, Gro Jamtvedt, Signe Flottorp, Jane M Young, Jan Odgaard‐Jensen, Simon D French, Mary Ann O'Brien, Marit Johansen, Jeremy Grimshaw, Andrew D Oxman |
Abstract |
Audit and feedback is widely used as a strategy to improve professional practice either on its own or as a component of multifaceted quality improvement interventions. This is based on the belief that healthcare professionals are prompted to modify their practice when given performance feedback showing that their clinical practice is inconsistent with a desirable target. Despite its prevalence as a quality improvement strategy, there remains uncertainty regarding both the effectiveness of audit and feedback in improving healthcare practice and the characteristics of audit and feedback that lead to greater impact. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Canada | 14 | 29% |
United Kingdom | 13 | 27% |
United States | 3 | 6% |
Ireland | 2 | 4% |
Finland | 1 | 2% |
Iraq | 1 | 2% |
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of | 1 | 2% |
Unknown | 13 | 27% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Members of the public | 30 | 63% |
Scientists | 10 | 21% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 8 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
United Kingdom | 16 | <1% |
United States | 12 | <1% |
Canada | 10 | <1% |
South Africa | 5 | <1% |
Australia | 4 | <1% |
Spain | 3 | <1% |
Indonesia | 2 | <1% |
Germany | 2 | <1% |
Ireland | 2 | <1% |
Other | 8 | <1% |
Unknown | 2018 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Student > Master | 350 | 17% |
Researcher | 288 | 14% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 231 | 11% |
Student > Bachelor | 167 | 8% |
Other | 138 | 7% |
Other | 475 | 23% |
Unknown | 433 | 21% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Medicine and Dentistry | 756 | 36% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 248 | 12% |
Social Sciences | 125 | 6% |
Psychology | 106 | 5% |
Business, Management and Accounting | 50 | 2% |
Other | 267 | 13% |
Unknown | 530 | 25% |