This study evaluates the impact of a feedback tool which measures performance and evaluates the effect to prescribing behaviour when performance is fedback to junior doctors prescribing using the Prescribing Information and Communication System in a university teaching hospital. Not Applicable
Conditions
Interventions
The intervention for the experiment group is access to the Junior Doctors Dashboard (JDD). The JDD is an automated computerised performance feedback tool with 8 dials. Six dials show prescription war
Sponsors
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UK)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Any doctor within the Trust who is below ST3 level (i.e. below specialty / specialist registrar level) and not within the exclusion criteria who had used PICS for four months preceding the trial, and who would be using the system during the trial period.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Doctors who are not actively using the PICS system (those who have issued fewer than 10 prescriptions in the baseline period). 2. Doctors who had only recently joined the hospital and for whom no baseline data were available.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. A difference in responses (on the dials identified in the primary outcome)to warnings, alarms and alerts between the months before and the months after the intervention 2. A difference in performance between participants receiving feedback and the control group 3. Differences between the following dials: 3.1. Disallow warnings for excessive dosing 3.2. Password warnings for excessive dosing and interactions 3.3. Laboratory alarms and alerts. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The differences between the following dials: 1. Disallow warnings for contraindications 2. Allergies and interactions / password warnings for contraindications and allergies | — |
Countries
United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed