Journal article
No more 'business as usual' with audit and feedback interventions: Towards an agenda for a reinvigorated intervention
NM Ivers, A Sales, H Colquhoun, S Michie, R Foy, JJ Francis, JM Grimshaw
Implementation Science | BMC | Published : 2014
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Abstract
Background: Audit 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 incorpora..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The meeting leading to this paper was supported by a planning grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) entitled, 'Improving the Effectiveness of Audit and Feedback Interventions in Health Care,' and supplemented with financial and administrative support from Knowledge Translation Canada (KT Canada). The positions taken in this paper should not be attributed to CIHR or KT Canada. NI is supported by Fellowship awards from CIHR and the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto. JMG holds a Canada Research Chair in Health Knowledge Transfer and Uptake. HC is supported by a CIHR Fellowship Award.