Practice-based continuing education combined with process improvement methods improves delivery of preventive services to children - 24/08/11
Abstract |
Question |
Does continuing medical education in combination with process improvement methods to implement office systems, increase rates of delivery of preventive care to children?
Study design |
Cluster randomised controlled trial.
Main results |
Significantly more children enrolled in intervention practices received all four preventive services compared with control practices after 30 months (change in proportion of children receiving all four preventive services: 7% to 34% with intervention vs 9% to 10% with no intervention; 4.6-fold increase with intervention compared with control, 95% CI 1.6 to 13.2, see Table 1).
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Authors’ conclusions |
Practice-based continuing medical education in combination with process improvement methods increases the rate of delivery of preventive care services to children.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Keywords : Family practice, Continuing education, Feedback and monitoring, Audit, Preventive services, Randomised controlled trial
Plan
 | Abstracted from: Margolis PA, Lannon CM, Stuart JM et al. Practice based education to improve delivery systems for prevention in primary care: randomised trial. BMJ 2004; 328: 388–392. |
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