Can a novel constructivist theory-informed feedback intervention reduce prescribing errors ? A pre-post study.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Medical interns (interns) find prescribing challenging and many report lacking readiness when commencing work. Errors in prescribing puts patients' safety at risk. Yet error rates remain high, despite education, supervision and pharmacists' contributions. Feedback on prescribing may improve performance. Yet, work-based prescribing feedback practices focus on rectifying errors. We aimed to explore if prescribing can be improved using a theory-informed feedback intervention.

Methods

In this pre-post study, we designed and implemented a constructivist-theory informed prescribing feedback intervention, informed by Feedback-Mark 2 Theory. Interns commencing internal medicine terms in two Australian teaching hospitals were invited to engage in the feedback intervention. Th

SUBMITTER: Coombes I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9993618 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature