Health-care professional behaviour
8 important questions on Health-care professional behaviour
(Enhancing) evidence-based health care
Trends in research: randomised controlled trials (RCT)
Trends in research: systematic reviews
- systematic review: present a balanced summary of the existing research, enabling decisions on effectiveness to be based on all relevant studies of adequate quality
- Or: A complete, unbiased collection of all the original studies of acceptable quality that examine the same therapeutic question
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Trends in research: meta-analysis
- a statistical analysis (!) which combines the results of 2 or more independent studies (trials or observational studies) considered by the analyst to be 'combinable'
- weighs the size of different studies included
- more power to detect small, but significant effects
- more precise estimate of size of effect
- fundamentally limited by the quality of the underlying studies (the so-called GIGO principle of 'garbage in, garbage out')
Systematic reviews of interventions
- however, often trials do not exactly describe the content of the intervention
- for example, what can an intervention of 'clinical eduction' mean?- a review of behaviour change interventions resulted in modest improvements in care. BUT, considerable variation in effects
Development of a theoretical framwork of HCP behaviour change
- often other labels for 'behaviour':
* knowledge transfer
* implementation research
* quality of care research
* guideline adherence...
ROGY Care trial
- (RCT) will be conducted, in which 12 hospitals will be randomised to either 'usual care' or 'SCP care'.
Changing HCP behaviour?
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