Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes
Cochrane Database of Systematic ReviewsPublished 19 April 2006
Gro Jamtvedt, Jane Young, Doris Tove Kristoffersen, Mary Ann O’Brien, Andrew D Oxman
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Audit and feedback can be effective in improving professional practice when it is effective and is likely to be greater when baseline adherence to recommended practice is low and when feedback is delivered more intensively.
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Audit and feedback can be effective in improving professional practice. When it is effective, the effects are generally small to moderate. The relative effectiveness of audit and feedback is likely to be greater when baseline adherence to recommended practice is low and when feedback is delivered more intensively.
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