Stakeholder assessment of intervention summaries as quality improvement interventions
| Article | Summary for rating | Should the article be classified as a study of the effectiveness, impacts or success of a QII? | ||||||
| Ratings adjusted for reviewer effect | ||||||||
| Scale=1–5; where 5=definitely; 4=probably; 3=no preference; 2=probably not; 1=definitely not | No of panelists endorsing each rating level | |||||||
| Mean±SD | Median | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| Spurling and Mansfield10 | ‘This study aimed to evaluate the interactions between pharmaceutical sales representatives and GPs in an Australian general practice, and develop and evaluate a policy to guide the interaction….Doctors' prescribing, diaries, practice promotional material and samples were audited and a staff survey undertaken. After receiving feedback, the staff voted on practice policy options.’ | 2.3±1.4 | 1.8 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Khan et al13 | ‘…a pragmatic randomized controlled trial to assess the effect of sputum-submission instructions on female patients…Patients in the intervention group were referred to a designated room where they received guidance as to how to produce a good sputum sample from a female health worker who had been trained by the researcher and a senior tuberculosis control officer as to how to provide sputum samples ’ | 2.5±1.4 | 2.3 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| Belle et al12 | ‘The intervention addressed care giver depression, burden, self-care, and social support and care recipient problem behaviours through 12 in-home and telephone sessions over 6 months…The intervention involved a range of strategies: provision of information, didactic instruction, role playing, problem solving, skills training, stress management techniques, and telephone support groups to reduce risk in the study's five target areas…’ | 3.0±1.4 | 3.4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| Figueiras et al11 | ‘[Objective:] To evaluate the effectiveness of educational outreach visits for improving adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting by physicians….[Intervention:] One-hour educational outreach visits tailored to training needs identified in a previous study.’ | 3.3±1.2 | 3.7 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
| Song et al14 | ‘[Objective:] …to evaluate short-term effects of Patient-Centered Advance Care Planning (PC-ACP)…The PC-ACP interview was delivered by a trained nurse facilitator and lasted from 20 to 45 min.’ | 2.8±1.2 | 2.9 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| Bradley et al15 | ‘[Objective:] …to identify quality improvement efforts that were associated with hospitals β-blocker prescription rates after acute myocardial infarction (AMI)…This was a cross-sectional study using data from a telephone survey of quality management directors at participating hospitals linked with patient-level data from the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction (NRMI) during the study period….’ | 3.5±0.77 | 3.6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 1 |