Do medical specialists accept claims-based Audit and Feedback for quality improvement? A focus group study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Audit and Feedback (A&F) is a widely used quality improvement (QI) intervention in healthcare. However, not all feedback is accepted by professionals. While claims-based feedback has been previously used for A&F interventions, its acceptance by medical specialists is largely unknown. This study examined medical specialists' acceptance of claims-based A&F for QI.

Design

Qualitative design, with focus group discussions. Transcripts were analysed using discourse analysis.

Setting and participants

A total of five online focus group discussions were conducted between April 2021 and September 2022 with 21 medical specialists from varying specialties (urology; paediatric surgery; gynaecology; vascular surgery; orthopaedics and trauma surgery) working in academic o

SUBMITTER: de Weerdt V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11015254 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature