Electronic audit and feedback intervention with action implementation toolbox to improve pain management in intensive care: protocol for a laboratory experiment and cluster randomised trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Audit and feedback is often used as a strategy to improve quality of care, however, its effects are variable and often marginal. In order to learn how to design and deliver effective feedback, we need to understand their mechanisms of action. This theory-informed study will investigate how electronic audit and feedback affects improvement intentions (i.e. information-intention gap), and whether an action implementation toolbox with suggested actions and materials helps translating those intentions into action (i.e. intention-behaviour gap). The study will be executed in Dutch intensive care units (ICUs) and will be focused on pain management.

Methods and design

We will conduct a laboratory experiment with individual ICU professionals to assess the impact of feedba

SUBMITTER: Gude WT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5445355 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature