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Surfacing the causal assumptions and active ingredients of healthcare quality improvement interventions: An application to primary care opioid prescribing

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العنوان: Surfacing the causal assumptions and active ingredients of healthcare quality improvement interventions: An application to primary care opioid prescribing
المؤلفون: Nicola McCleary, Celia Laur, Justin Presseau, Gail Dobell, Jonathan M.C. Lam, Sharon Gushue, Katie Hagel, Lindsay Bevan, Lena Salach, Laura Desveaux, Noah M. Ivers
المصدر: Implementation Research and Practice, Vol 4 (2023)
بيانات النشر: SAGE Publishing, 2023.
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: LCC:Psychiatry
مصطلحات موضوعية: Mental healing, RZ400-408, Psychiatry, RC435-571
الوصف: Background Efforts to maximize the impact of healthcare improvement interventions are hampered when intervention components are not well defined or described, precluding the ability to understand how and why interventions are expected to work. Method We partnered with two organizations delivering province-wide quality improvement interventions to establish how they envisaged their interventions lead to change (their underlying causal assumptions) and to identify active ingredients (behavior change techniques [BCTs]). The interventions assessed were an audit and feedback report and an academic detailing program. Both focused on supporting safer opioid prescribing in primary care in Ontario, Canada. Data collection involved semi-structured interviews with intervention developers ( n = 8) and a content analysis of intervention documents. Analyses unpacked and articulated how the interventions were intended to achieve change and how this was operationalized. Results: Developers anticipated that the feedback report would provide physicians with a clear understanding of their own prescribing patterns in comparison to others. In the feedback report, we found an emphasis on BCTs consistent with that assumption ( feedback on behavior ; social comparison ). The detailing was designed to provide tailored support to enable physicians to overcome barriers to change and to gradually enact specific practice changes for patients based on improved communication. In the detailing materials, we found an emphasis on instructions on how to perform the behavior , for a range of behaviors (e.g., tapering opioids, treating opioid use disorder). The materials were supplemented by detailer-enacted BCTs (e.g., social support [practical] ; goal setting [behavior] ; review behavioral goal[s] ). Conclusions The interventions included a small range of BCTs addressing various clinical behaviors. This work provides a methodological example of how to apply a behavioral lens to surface the active ingredients, target clinical behaviors, and causal assumptions of existing large-scale improvement interventions that could be applied in other contexts to optimize effectiveness and facilitate scale and spread.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2633-4895
26334895
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/2633-4895
DOI: 10.1177/26334895231206569
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/a6d252b7fe244ccbbed8c9282996ccc6
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.6d252b7fe244ccbbed8c9282996ccc6
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:26334895
DOI:10.1177/26334895231206569