Facilitating action planning within audit and feedback interventions: a mixed-methods process evaluation of an action implementation toolbox in intensive care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Audit and feedback (A&F) is more effective if it facilitates action planning, but little is known about how best to do this. We developed an electronic A&F intervention with an action implementation toolbox to improve pain management in intensive care units (ICUs); the toolbox contained suggested actions for improvement. A head-to-head randomised trial demonstrated that the toolbox moderately increased the intervention's effectiveness when compared with A&F only.

Objective

To understand the mechanisms through which A&F with action implementation toolbox facilitates action planning by ICUs to increase A&F effectiveness.

Methods

We extracted all individual actions from action plans developed by ICUs that received A&F with (n = 10) and without (n = 11) toolbox

SUBMITTER: Gude WT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6751678 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature