Developing a complex intervention to improve prescribing safety in primary care: mixed methods feasibility and optimisation pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

(A) To measure the extent to which different candidate outcome measures identified high-risk prescribing that is potentially changeable by the data-driven quality improvement in primary care (DQIP) intervention.(B) To explore the value of reviewing identified high-risk prescribing to clinicians.(C) To optimise the components of the DQIP intervention.

Design

Mixed method study.

Setting

General practices in two Scottish Health boards.

Participants

4 purposively sampled general practices of varying size and socioeconomic deprivation.

Outcome measures

Prescribing measures targeting (1) high-risk use of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and antiplatelets; (2) 'Asthma control' and (3) 'Antithrombotics in atrial fibrillation (AF)'.

SUBMITTER: Grant AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3902335 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature