Meta-analysis: audit and feedback features impact effectiveness on care quality.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Audit and feedback (A&F) has long been used to improve quality of care, albeit with variable results. This meta-analytic study tested whether Feedback Intervention Theory, a framework from industrial/organizational psychology, explains the observed variability in health care A&F research.

Method

Data source

studies cited by Jamtvedt's 2006 Cochrane systematic review of A&F, followed by database searches using the Cochrane review's search strategy to identify more recent studies.

Inclusion criteria

Cochrane review criteria, plus: presence of a treatment group receiving only A & F; a control group receiving no intervention; a quantitatively measurable outcome; minimum n of 10 per arm; sufficient statistics for effect size calculations. Moderators: pre

SUBMITTER: Hysong SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4170834 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature