Nudging healthcare professionals in clinical settings: a scoping review of the literature.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Healthcare organisations are in constant need of improvement and change. Nudging has been proposed as a strategy to affect people's choices and has been used to affect patients' behaviour in healthcare settings. However, little is known about how nudging is being interpreted and applied to change the behaviour of healthcare professionals (HCPs). The objective of this review is to identify interventions using nudge theory to affect the behaviour of HCPs in clinical settings.

Methods

A scoping review. We searched PubMed and PsycINFO for articles published from 2010 to September 2019, including terms related to "nudging" in the title or abstract. Two reviewers screened articles for inclusion based on whether the articles described an intervention to change the behavi

SUBMITTER: Sant'Anna A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8170624 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature