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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Feedback GAP: Study protocol for a cluster-randomized trial of goal setting and action plans to increase the effectiveness of audit and feedback interventions in primary care
Implementation Science, Volume 5, No. 1, Article 98, Year 2010
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Background: Audit and feedback to physicians is commonly used alone or as part of multifaceted interventions. While it can play an important role in quality improvement, the optimal design of audit and feedback is unknown. This study explores how feedback can be improved to increase acceptability and usability in primary care. The trial seeks to determine whether a theory-informed worksheet appended to feedback reports can help family physicians improve quality of care for their patients with diabetes and/or ischemic heart disease.Methods: Two-arm cluster trial was conducted with participating primary care practices allocated using minimization to simple feedback or enhanced feedback group. The simple feedback group receives performance feedback reports every six months for two years regarding the proportion of their patients with diabetes and/or ischemic heart disease who are meeting quality targets. The enhanced feedback group receives these same reports as well as a theory-informed worksheet designed to facilitate goal setting and action plan development in response to the feedback reports. Participants are family physicians from across Ontario who use electronic medical records; data for rostered patients are used to produce the feedback reports and for analysis.Outcomes: The primary disease outcomes are the blood pressure (BP), and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL) levels. The primary process measure is a composite score indicating the number of recommended activities (e.g., tests and prescriptions) conducted by the family physicians for their patients with diabetes and/or ischemic heart disease within the appropriate timeframe. Secondary outcomes are the proportion of patients whose results meet targets for glucose, LDL, and BP as well as the percent of patients receiving relevant prescriptions. A qualitative process evaluation using semi-structured interviews will explore perceived barriers to behaviour change in response to feedback reports and preferences with regard to feedback design.Analysis: Intention-to-treat approach will be used to analyze the trial. Analysis will be performed on patient-level variables using generalized estimating equation models to adjust for covariates and account for the clustered nature of the data. The trial is powered to show small, but clinically important differences of 7 mmHG in systolic BP and 0.32 mmol/L in LDL.Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00996645. © 2010 Ivers et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
Authors & Co-Authors
Tu, Karen
Canada, Toronto
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
Canada, Toronto
University of Toronto
Canada, Toronto
University Health Network University of Toronto
Francis, Jill J.
United Kingdom, Aberdeen
University of Aberdeen
Barnsley, Jan M.
Canada, Toronto
University of Toronto
Upshur, Ross E.G.
Canada, Toronto
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
Canada, Toronto
University of Toronto
Canada, Toronto
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Canada, Toronto
University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics
Kiss, Alex J.
Canada, Toronto
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
Canada, Toronto
University of Toronto
Grimshaw, Jeremy M.
Canada, Ottawa
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Zwarenstein, Merrick F.
Canada, Toronto
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
Canada, Toronto
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Statistics
Citations: 21
Authors: 7
Affiliations: 8
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1186/1748-5908-5-98
ISSN:
17485908
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Noncommunicable Diseases
Study Design
Randomised Control Trial
Study Approach
Qualitative