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Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes

Jamtvedt, Gro, Young, Jane M, Kristoffersen, Doris Tove, O'Brien, Mary Ann, Oxman, Andrew D·2006·Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd000259.pub2

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BACKGROUND: Audit and feedback continues to be widely used as a strategy to improve professional practice. It appears logical that healthcare professionals would be prompted to modify their practice if given feedback that their clinical practice was inconsistent with that of their peers or accepted guidelines. Yet, audit and feedback has not consistently been found to be effective. OBJECTIVES: To assess the effects of audit and feedback on the practice of healthcare professionals and patient outcomes. SEARCH STRATEGY: We searched the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Group's register and pending file up to January 2004. SELECTION CRITERIA: Randomised trials of audit and feedback (defined as any summary of clinical performance over a specified period of time) that reported objectively measured professional practice in a healthcare setting or healthcare outcomes. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS: Two reviewers independently extracted data and assessed study quality. Quantitative (meta-regression), visual and qualitative analyses were undertaken. For each comparison we calculated the risk difference (RD) and risk ratio (RR), adjusted for baseline compliance when possible, for dichotomous outcomes and the percentage and the percent change relative to the control group average after the intervention, adjusted for baseline performance when possible, for continuous outcomes. We investigated the following factors as possible explanations for the variation in the effectiveness of interventions across comparisons: the type of intervention (audit and feedback alone, audit and feedback with educational meetings, or multifaceted interventions that included audit and feedback), the intensity of the audit and feedback, the complexity of the targeted behaviour, the seriousness of the outcome, baseline compliance and study quality. MAIN RESULTS: Thirty new studies were added to this update, and a total of 118 studies are included. In the primary analysis 88 comparisons from 72 studies were included that compared any intervention in which audit and feedback is a component compared to no intervention. For dichotomous outcomes the adjusted risk difference of compliance with desired practice varied from - 0.16 (a 16 % absolute decrease in compliance) to 0.70 (a 70% increase in compliance) (median = 0.05, inter-quartile range = 0.03 to 0.11) and the adjusted risk ratio varied from 0.71 to 18.3 (median = 1.08, inter-quartile range = 0.99 to 1.30). For continuous outcomes the adjusted percent change relative to control varied from -0.10 (a 10 % absolute decrease in compliance) to 0.68 (a 68% increase in compliance) (median = 0.16, inter-quartile range = 0.05 to 0.37). Low baseline compliance with recommended practice and higher intensity of audit and feedback were associated with larger adjusted risk ratios (greater effectiveness) across studies. AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS: 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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Authors: Jamtvedt, G., Young, J. M., Kristoffersen, D. T., O'Brien, M. A., & Oxman, A. D.
Affiliations: Nasjonalt Kunnskapssenter for Helsetjenesten (NO)
ORCID: Jamtvedt, Gro
Young, Jane M
Kristoffersen, Doris Tove
Oxman, Andrew D
Venue: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Published: 2006-04-19
Issue: 2
Pages: CD000259-CD000259
ISSN: 1361-6137 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd000259.pub2
OpenAlex: W4245034287
Cited by: 912
References: 207
Citations by year: 2026: 4 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 27 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 31 · 2017: 42 · 2016: 38 · 2015: 55 · 2014: 45 · 2013: 133 · 2012: 82
Type: reference entry
Language: en
Update notices: new_version (2012-06-13)
Open access: closed
Locations: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics: Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Policy Implementation Science
Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Clinical practice guidelines implementation
Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Sciences Research and Education
Keywords: audit and feedback, professional practice change, guideline adherence, health care outcomes, multicomponent intervention, educational meetings, intervention intensity, behavior change, quality improvement, patient outcomes, healthcare workers, meta-regression, study quality, risk difference, relative risk, continuous outcomes, binary outcomes
MeSH terms: Education, Medical, Continuing, Health Personnel, Health Services Research, Humans, Medical Audit, Practice Patterns, Physicians', Professional Practice, Outcome Assessment, Health Care, Feedback, Psychological

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