Tailored interventions to address determinants of practice

Baker, Richard, Camosso-Stefinovic, Janette, Gillies, Clare, Shaw, Elizabeth J, Cheater, Francine, Flottorp, Signe, Robertson, Noelle, Wensing, Michel, Fiander, Michelle, Eccles, Martin P, Godycki-Cwirko, Maciek, van Lieshout, Jan and Jaeger, Cornelia (2015) Tailored interventions to address determinants of practice. The Cochrane Library (4).

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Abstract

Plain language summary: Tailored interventions to change professional practice are interventions planned following an investigation into the factors that explain current professional practice and any reasons for resisting new practice. These factors are referred to using various terms, including barriers, enablers, obstacles, and facilitators; in this review we use the term determinants of practice to include all such factors. The determinants may vary in different healthcare settings, groups of healthcare professionals, or clinical tasks. It is widely assumed that efforts to change professional practice have a lower likelihood of success unless these determinants are identified and taken into account. In a previous review, we included 26 studies and we concluded that tailoring can change professional practice. However, more studies of tailoring have been published and therefore we have incorporated the new studies into an update of the review. We have included 32 studies in the new review. The findings continue to indicate that tailored interventions can change professional practice, although they are not always effective and, when they are, the effect is small to moderate. There is insufficient evidence on the most effective approaches to tailoring, including how determinants should be identified, how decisions should be made on which determinants are most important to address, and how interventions should be selected to account for the important determinants. In addition, there is no evidence about the cost-effectiveness of tailored interventions compared to other interventions to change professional practice. Therefore, future research studies should seek to develop and evaluate more systematic approaches to tailoring.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Health Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Community and Family Health (former - to 2017)
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	05 May 2015 10:40
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 00:53
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/53356
DOI:	10.1002/14651858.CD005470.pub3

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