Table 2 Evidence of effectiveness for interventions to promote behavioural change among health professionals [7]
Consistently effective | Variable effectiveness | Little or no effect |
|---|---|---|
• Educational outreach visits (for prescribing in North America) • Reminders (manual or computerised) • Multifaceted interventions (a combination that includes two or more of the following: audit and feedback, reminders, local consensus processes, or marketing) • Interactive educational meetings (participation of healthcare providers in workshops that include discussion of practice) | • Audit and feedback (or any summary of clinical performance) • The use of local opinion leaders (practitioners identified by their colleagues as influential) • Local consensus processes (inclusion of participating practitioners in discussions to ensure that they agree that the chosen clinical problem is important and the approach to managing the problem is appropriate) • Patient-mediated interventions (any intervention aimed at changing the performance of healthcare providers for which specific information was sought from or given to patients) | • Educational materials (distribution of recommendations for clinical care, including clinical practice guidelines, audiovisual materials, and electronic publications) • Didactic educational meetings (such as lectures) |