Data feedback and behavioural change intervention to improve primary care prescribing safety (EFIPPS): multicentre, three arm, cluster randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

 To evaluate the effectiveness of feedback on safety of prescribing compared with moderately enhanced usual care.

Design

 Three arm, highly pragmatic cluster randomised trial.

Setting and participants

 262/278 (94%) primary care practices in three Scottish health boards.

Interventions

 Practices were randomised to: "usual care," consisting of emailed educational material with support for searching to identify patients (88 practices at baseline, 86 analysed); usual care plus feedback on practice's high risk prescribing sent quarterly on five occasions (87 practices, 86 analysed); or usual care plus the same feedback incorporating a behavioural change component (87 practices, 86 analysed).

Main outcome measures

 The primary outcome was a patient

SUBMITTER: Guthrie B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4990081 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature