Characteristics of academic detailing: Results of a literature review

American Health and Drug Benefits

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 414-422

  Van Hoof, Thomas J ^a,b   Harrison, Lisa G ^a   Miller, Nicole E ^c   Pappas, Maryanne S ^a,d   Fischer, Michael A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Hartford HealthCare Research Institute   (United States)

^d HARTFORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic detailing; Continuing education; Continuing medical education; Educational outreach; Health professions education; Narrative review; Quality improvement; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

CINAHL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DOCUMENTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MEDLINE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SCOPUS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; WORKER;

EID: 84951921363     PISSN: 19422962     EISSN: 19422970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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