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MEDICAL CARE
卷 45, 期 10, 页码 966-972出版社
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3180546856
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academic detailing; quality improvement; physician practice patterns; medication safety
Purpose: To determine whether group academic detailing with performance feedback increases recommended laboratory monitoring among outpatients dispensed medications. Methods: Thirty-eight primary care practices in 3 states were randomized to group academic detailing with physician-level performance feedback (intervention) or a control group. Adjusted differences in creatinine and potassium testing between intervention and control group patients with a new or continuing dispensing for angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors/angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs), diuretics, or digoxin were evaluated using generalized estimating equation approaches. Results: Monitoring among patients with an initial ACE/ARB and diuretic :dispensing significantly improved with the intervention [odds ratio (OR) = 1.22, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.08-1.38; and OR = 1.25, 95% CI: 1.08-1.44, respectively). The intervention also significantly improved monitoring among patients with a continuing dispensing for an ACE/ARB (OR = 1.39, 95% CI: 1.111.74) or a diuretic (OR = 1.28, 95% CI: 1.02-1.60). Adjusted differences in testing rates between study arms were modest (ranging from 2.5% to 4.9%). No significant differences in monitoring by study arm were detected among patients dispensed digoxin. Conclusions: The impact of a group academic detailing program with feedback on recommended laboratory monitoring among medication users was modest. Yet, given the numbers of outpatients dispensed medications for which laboratory monitoring is recommended, group academic detailing may offer I method by which outpatient medication safety can be significantly improved.
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