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Examples of interventions to promote professional behaviour change. |
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| Educational outreach visits |
A personal visit by a trained person to a health care provider in his or her own setting |
| Reminders (manual or computerised] |
Prompts performance of a patient specific clinical action |
| Interactive educational meetings |
Participation of health care providers in workshops that include discussion or practice |
| Audit and feedback |
Any summary of clinical performance over a specified period of time |
| Local opinion leaders |
Health professionals nominated by their colleagues as being educationally influential |
| Local consensus process |
Inclusion of professionals in discussions to agreed the approach to managing a clinical problem that they have selected as important |
| Patient mediated interventions |
Specific information sought from or given to patients |
| Educational materials |
Distribution of recommendations for clinical care (such as clinical practice guidelines, audio-visual materials, electronic publications). |
| Didactic educational meetings |
Lectures with minimal participant interaction |
| Financial incentives |
payments directly rewarding health care providers for specified behaviours |
| Multifaceted interventions |
A combination of two or more interventions |
Foy et al. BMC Health Services Research 2005 5:50 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-5-50 |
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