Educational outreach visits: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Educational outreach visits (EOVs) have been identified as an intervention that may improve the practice of healthcare professionals. This type of face-to-face visit has been referred to as university-based educational detailing, academic detailing, and educational visiting. OBJECTIVES: To assess the effects of EOVs on health professional practice or patient outcomes.

Authors

O'Brien MA; Rogers S; Jamtvedt G; Oxman AD; Odgaard‐Jensen J; Kristoffersen DT; Forsetlund L; Bainbridge D; Freemantle N; Davis D

Journal

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Vol. 2007, No. 4,

Publisher

Wiley

DOI

10.1002/14651858.cd000409.pub2

ISSN

1361-6137

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Robert Brian Haynes

Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Health Sciences

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