Advancing the literature on designing audit and feedback interventions: identifying theory-informed hypotheses.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Audit and feedback (A&F) is a common strategy for helping health providers to implement evidence into practice. Despite being extensively studied, health care A&F interventions remain variably effective, with overall effect sizes that have not improved since 2003. Contributing to this stagnation is the fact that most health care A&F interventions have largely been designed without being informed by theoretical understanding from the behavioral and social sciences. To determine if the trend can be improved, the objective of this study was to develop a list of testable, theory-informed hypotheses about how to design more effective A&F interventions.

Methods

Using purposive sampling, semi-structured 60-90-min telephone interviews were conducted with experts in theori

SUBMITTER: Colquhoun HL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5622490 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature