Developing a learning health system: Insights from a qualitative process evaluation of a pharmacist-led electronic audit and feedback intervention to improve medication safety in primary care.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Developments in information technology offer opportunities to enhance medication safety in primary care. We evaluated the implementation and adoption of a complex pharmacist-led intervention involving the use of an electronic audit and feedback surveillance dashboard to identify patients potentially at risk of hazardous prescribing or monitoring of medicines in general practices. The intervention aimed to create a rapid learning health system for medication safety in primary care. This study aimed to explore how the intervention was implemented, adopted and embedded into practice using a qualitative process evaluation.

Methods

Twenty two participants were purposively recruited from eighteen out of forty-three general practices receiving the intervention as well

SUBMITTER: Jeffries M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6203246 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature