No more 'business as usual' with audit and feedback interventions: Towards an agenda for a reinvigorated intervention

Implementation Science

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Ivers, Noah M ^a   Sales, Anne ^b   Colquhoun, Heather ^c   Michie, Susan ^d   Foy, Robbie ^e   Francis, Jill J ^f   Grimshaw, Jeremy M ^c  

^a WOMEN S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^f CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audit and feedback; Best practice; Implementation; Optimization; Synthesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; MEDICAL AUDIT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BEHAVIOR; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEEDBACK; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84892465409     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17485908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-5908-9-14     Document Type: Article

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