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 …

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 …

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 …

There is now extensive evidence from every country in which it has been sought that there is
a gap between the health care that patients receive, and the practice that is recommended …

Objectives: To improve outcomes for cognitively impaired and delirious older adults. Design:
Pretest, posttest. Setting: A university‐affiliated hospital. Participants: Physicians and nurses …

Objective: A systematic review was undertaken of studies that test the effectiveness of
different strategies used to increase general practitioners' rates of screening for and giving …

Background: The potential of primary care practice settings to prevent disease and morbidity
through health habit counseling, screening for asymptomatic disease, and immunizations …

Objective: This study examines the impact of marketing strategies on the dissemination of a
brief alcohol intervention program to general practitioners (GPs). The marketing strategy was …

Background: Although walk-in clinics are an increasingly common feature of Ontario's health
care system, the quality of care they provide is the subject of continuing debate. In this study …

There are serious problems associated with the underuse, overuse, and misuse of health
care. Part of the solution involves changing practicing physicians' competence and …