Table 1. Study eligibility criteria.
| Criteria | Inclusion | Exclusion |
|---|---|---|
| Population | Primary care prescribers (e.g. General Practitioners, non-medical
prescribers based in primary care such as pharmacists and advanced nurse practitioners). Patients within primary care settings (No restrictions on patient characteristics) |
Primary care prescribers working in a secondary care setting. Dentists
Patients in other settings not considered a primary care setting. |
| Intervention | An interactive dashboard designed to provide feedback on
prescribing data to prescribers and including the following characteristics: Visual display of data: Data is presented in the form of graphs or tables. Interactivity: Allows direct manipulation with visual analytical tools or provides multiple parameters from the dataset, accessible online or via email. Real-time data: Offers real-time or relatively contemporaneous data, no older than one year. Frequent data feedback: Provides data feedback more than once. Comparative analysis: Compares data to peers or set standards. |
Simple CDSS interventions
Audit and feedback interventions that do not give longitudinal and ongoing feedback |
| Comparator | Usual care | |
| Outcomes |
Primary Outcome: Prescribing related outcome measures such
as implicit/explicit criteria, high-risk or low-value criteria or where relevant prescribing rates (e.g. where a higher rate may reflect lower quality such as benzodiazepine or opioid use). |
No prescribing outcomes
measured |
| Setting | Primary care (Family practice, general practice) | Studies focused on specialist
clinics, nursing homes, hospital based, dental surgeries. |
| Study design | Interventional studies both randomised and non-randomised
designs (e.g. Randomised controlled trials, non-randomised controlled trials, controlled before and after studies and interrupted time series) |
Systematic reviews, descriptive
study designs (e.g., case reports, uncontrolled before and after studies). Letters, commentaries, editorials. |
|
Publication
language |
No language restriction | |
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Dates of
publication |
No year limitation |