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Tailored interventions to address determinants of practice

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, April 2015
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Title
Tailored interventions to address determinants of practice
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, April 2015
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd005470.pub3
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Richard Baker, Janette Camosso‐Stefinovic, Clare Gillies, Elizabeth J Shaw, Francine Cheater, Signe Flottorp, Noelle Robertson, Michel Wensing, Michelle Fiander, Martin P Eccles, Maciek Godycki‐Cwirko, Jan van Lieshout, Cornelia Jäger

Abstract

Tailored intervention strategies are frequently recommended among approaches to the implementation of improvement in health professional performance. Attempts to change the behaviour of health professionals may be impeded by a variety of different barriers, obstacles, or factors (which we collectively refer to as determinants of practice). Change may be more likely if implementation strategies are specifically chosen to address these determinants. To determine whether tailored intervention strategies are effective in improving professional practice and healthcare outcomes. We compared interventions tailored to address the identified determinants of practice with either no intervention or interventions not tailored to the determinants. We conducted searches of The Cochrane Library, MEDLINE, EMBASE, PubMed, CINAHL, and the British Nursing Index to May 2014. We conducted a final search in December 2014 (in MEDLINE only) for more recently published trials. We conducted searches of the metaRegister of Controlled Trials (mRCT) in March 2013. We also handsearched two journals. Cluster-randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of interventions tailored to address prospectively identified determinants of practice, which reported objectively measured professional practice or healthcare outcomes, and where at least one group received an intervention designed to address prospectively identified determinants of practice. Two review authors independently assessed quality and extracted data. We undertook qualitative and quantitative analyses, the quantitative analysis including two elements: we carried out 1) meta-regression analyses to compare interventions tailored to address identified determinants with either no interventions or an intervention(s) not tailored to the determinants, and 2) heterogeneity analyses to investigate sources of differences in the effectiveness of interventions. These included the effects of: risk of bias, use of a theory when developing the intervention, whether adjustment was made for local factors, and number of domains addressed with the determinants identified. We added nine studies to this review to bring the total number of included studies to 32 comparing an intervention tailored to address identified determinants of practice to no intervention or an intervention(s) not tailored to the determinants. The outcome was implementation of recommended practice, e.g. clinical practice guideline recommendations. Fifteen studies provided enough data to be included in the quantitative analysis. The pooled odds ratio was 1.56 (95% confidence interval (CI) 1.27 to 1.93, P value < 0.001). The 17 studies not included in the meta-analysis had findings showing variable effectiveness consistent with the findings of the meta-regression. Despite the increase in the number of new studies identified, our overall finding is similar to that of the previous review. Tailored implementation can be effective, but the effect is variable and tends to be small to moderate. The number of studies remains small and more research is needed, including trials comparing tailored interventions to no or other interventions, but also studies to develop and investigate the components of tailoring (identification of the most important determinants, selecting interventions to address the determinants). Currently available studies have used different methods to identify determinants of practice and different approaches to selecting interventions to address the determinants. It is not yet clear how best to tailor interventions and therefore not clear what the effect of an optimally tailored intervention would be.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 681 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 107 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 92 13%
Researcher 88 13%
Student > Bachelor 53 8%
Student > Postgraduate 42 6%
Other 130 19%
Unknown 178 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 190 28%
Nursing and Health Professions 109 16%
Psychology 57 8%
Social Sciences 35 5%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 17 2%
Other 69 10%
Unknown 213 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 January 2022.
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