Background Audit and feedback is widely used as a strategy to improve professional
practice either on its own or as a component of multifaceted quality improvement …

Background Educational meetings are used widely by health personnel to provide
continuing medical education and to promote implementation of innovations or translate …

Importance Inpatient care providers often order laboratory tests without any appreciation for
the costs of the tests. Objective To determine whether we could decrease the number of …

Quality circles or peer review groups, and similar structured small groups of 6–12 health
care professionals meet regularly across Europe to reflect on and improve their standard …

Objectives To evaluate the effectiveness of practices used to support appropriate clinical
laboratory test utilization. Methods This review followed the Centers for Disease Control and …

Demand for laboratory testing is increasing disproportionately to medical activity, and the
tests involved are becoming increasingly complex. When this phenomenon is seen in …

PURPOSE AND SETTING: This review aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of strategies to
implement clinical guidelines for chronic disease management in primary care in EU …

Objective: To identify and describe the core characteristics and the spread of quality circles
in primary healthcare in European countries. Design: An online survey was conducted …

The possibilities for ordering laboratory testing in hospitals inevitably need to be managed,
given physicians' knowledge on the use of laboratory testing, their attitudes towards test …

Rationale, aims and objectives Traditional continuing medical education programmes that
offer passive learning have been shown to be poorly effective at changing doctors' clinical …