A Garjani

A Giguère

A Rashidian

AM Cheraghali

BM Psaty

Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health 2008

F Soleymani

FH Messerku

G Jamtvedt

G Sepehri

HV Hogerzeil

I Ajzen

J Lexchin

J Lopez Bastida

J Shepherd

JJ Beilby

JM Grimshaw

JM Wright

K Bloor

M Packer

M Wensing

N Freemantle

R Madridejos-Mora

RM Wickersham

S Nikfar

Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study Group

DARU : Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences

AbstractBackgroundPhysician prescribing is the most frequent medical intervention with a highest impact on healthcare costs and outcomes. Therefore improving and promoting rational drug use is a great interest. We aimed to assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of two forms of conducting prescribing audit and feedback interventions and a printed educational material intervention in improving physician prescribing.Method/designA four-arm randomized trial with economic evaluation will be conducted in Tehran. Three interventions (routine feedback, revised feedback, and printed educational material) and a no intervention control arm will be compared. Physicians working in outpatient practices are randomly allocated to one of the four arms using stratified randomized sampling. The interventions are developed based on a review of literature, physician interviews, current experiences in Iran and with theoretical insights from the Theory of Planned Behavior. Effects of the interventions on improving antibiotics and corticosteroids prescribing will be assessed in regression analyses. Cost data will be assessed from a health care provider’s perspective and incremental cost-effectiveness ratios will be calculated.DiscussionThis study will determine the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of three interventions and allow us to determine the most effective interventions in improving prescribing pattern. If the interventions are cost-effective, they will likely be applied nationwide.Trial registrationIranian Registry of Clinical Trials Registration Number: IRCT201106086740N1Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center of TUMS Ethics Committee Registration Number: 90-02-27-07</jats:sec

Fatemeh Soleymani

Arash Rashidian

Rassoul Dinarvand

Abbas Kebriaeezade

Mostafa Hosseini

Mohammad Abdollahi

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Assessing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of audit and feedback on physician’s prescribing indicators: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial with economic evaluation

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