Foy, R orcid.org/0000-0003-0605-7713, Eccles, MP, Jamtvedt, G et al. (3 more authors) (2005) What do we know about how to do audit and feedback? Pitfalls in applying evidence from a systematic review. BMC Health Services Research, 5. 50. ISSN 1472-6963
Abstract
Background: Improving the quality of health care requires a range of evidence-based activities. Audit and feedback is commonly used as a quality improvement tool in the UK National Health Service [NHS]. We set out to assess whether current guidance and systematic review evidence can sufficiently inform practical decisions about how to use audit and feedback to improve quality of care. Methods: We selected an important chronic disease encountered in primary care: diabetes mellitus. We identified recommendations from National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance on conducting audit and generated questions which would be relevant to any attempt to operationalise audit and feedback in a healthcare service setting. We explored the extent to which a systematic review of audit and feedback could provide practical guidance about whether audit and feedback should be used to improve quality of diabetes care and, if so, how audit and feedback could be optimised. Results: National guidance suggests the importance of securing the right organisational conditions and processes. Review evidence suggests that audit and feedback can be effective in changing healthcare professional practice. However, the available evidence says relatively little about the detail of how to use audit and feedback most efficiently. Conclusion: Audit and feedback will continue to be an unreliable approach to quality improvement until we learn how and when it works best. Conceptualising audit and feedback within a theoretical framework offers a way forward.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Foy et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2005. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | IMPLEMENTATION RESEARCH; HEALTH-CARE; TRIAL; NEED |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Medicine (Leeds) > Leeds Institute of Health Sciences (Leeds) > Academic Unit of Primary Care (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 06 Sep 2017 14:31 |
Last Modified: | 12 Feb 2019 14:18 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | BioMed Central |
Identification Number: | 10.1186/1472-6963-5-50 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:89413 |