Table 4 Professional interventions as per Cochrane EPOC review group (adapted from reference [21])
Intervention | Description |
|---|---|
Category: interventions targeted at healthcare workers | |
 Distribution of educational | Distribution to individuals, or groups, of educational materials to support clinical care, i.e., any intervention in which knowledge is distributed. For example, this may be facilitated by the Internet, learning critical appraisal skills; skills for electronic retrieval of information, diagnostic formulation; question formulation |
 Educational meetings | Courses, workshops, conferences, or other educational meetings |
 Educational outreach visits | Personal visits by a trained person to health workers in their own settings, to provide information with the aim of changing practice |
 Audit and feedback | Any summary of clinical performance of healthcare over a specified period of time. The summary may also have included recommendations for clinical action. The information may have been obtained from medical records, databases, or patient observations |
 Clinical practice guidelines | Clinical guidelines are systematically developed statements to assist healthcare providers and patients to decide on appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances (US IOM) |
 Local opinion leaders | The identification and use of identifiable local opinion leaders to promote good clinical practice |
 Reminders | Manual or computerised interventions that prompt health workers to perform an action during a consultation with a patient, for example computer decision support systems |
Coordination of care and management of care processes | |
 Communication between providers | Systems or strategies for improving the communication between health care providers, for example systems to improve immunisation coverage in LMIC |