Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes

…, SD French, MA O'Brien… - Cochrane database …, 2012 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Audit and feedback is widely used as a strategy to improve professional practice
either on its own or as a component of multifaceted quality improvement interventions. This …

Changing provider behavior: an overview of systematic reviews of interventions

…, L Bero, R Grilli, E Harvey, A Oxman, MA O'Brien - Medical care, 2001 - journals.lww.com
Background. Increasing recognition of the failure to translate research findings into practice
has led to greater awareness of the importance of using active dissemination and …

Continuing education meetings and workshops: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes

L Forsetlund, MA O'Brien, L Forsén… - Cochrane database …, 2021 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Educational meetings are used widely by health personnel to provide
continuing medical education and to promote implementation of innovations or translate new …

Educational outreach visits: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes

MA O'Brien, S Rogers, G Jamtvedt… - Cochrane Database …, 2007 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Educational outreach visits (EOVs) have been identified as an intervention that
may improve the practice of healthcare professionals. This type of face‐to‐face visit has …

Local opinion leaders: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes

G Flodgren, MA O'Brien, E Parmelli… - Cochrane Database …, 2019 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Clinical practice is not always evidence‐based and, therefore, may not optimise
patient outcomes. Local opinion leaders (OLs) are individuals perceived as credible and …

Effect of a decision aid on knowledge and treatment decision making for breast cancer surgery: a randomized trial

…, K Sanders, D Mirsky, S Chambers, MA O'Brien… - Jama, 2004 - jamanetwork.com
ContextThe long-term results of randomized trials have demonstrated equivalent survival
rates for mastectomy and breast-conserving therapy for the treatment of early stage breast …

Does telling people what they have been doing change what they do? A systematic review of the effects of audit and feedback

…, JM Young, DT Kristoffersen, MA O'Brien… - BMJ Quality & …, 2006 - qualitysafety.bmj.com
Background: Many people advocate audit and feedback as a strategy for improving professional
practice. The main results of an update of a Cochrane review on the effects of audit and …

[HTML][HTML] Growing literature, stagnant science? Systematic review, meta-regression and cumulative analysis of audit and feedback interventions in health care

…, G Jamtvedt, S Flottorp, MA O'Brien… - Journal of general …, 2014 - Springer
BACKGROUND This paper extends the findings of the Cochrane systematic review of audit
and feedback on professional practice to explore the estimate of effect over time and …

Cultural influences on the physician–patient encounter: the case of shared treatment decision-making

C Charles, A Gafni, T Whelan, MA O'Brien - Patient education and …, 2006 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: In this paper we discuss the influence of culture on the process of treatment
decision-making, and in particular, shared treatment decision-making in the physician–patient …

[HTML][HTML] Are cancer-related decision aids effective? A systematic review and meta-analysis

MA O'Brien, TJ Whelan, M Villasis-Keever… - Database of Abstracts …, 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This review concluded that cancer-related decision aids were effective in increasing patient
knowledge compared with usual practice without increasing anxiety particularly in the area …