Valoración del outreach visits como estrategia para la difusión de recomendaciones GRADE

Abstract

One of the main barriers to improving clinical practice and health outcomes is the failure in the transmission of scientific knowledge to the clinical practice. Previous studies have shown that the outreach visits strategy is effective as an educational strategy to change the behavior of health care professionals.

Therefore, the Oficina de Evaluación de Medicamentos (Medicinal Produce Evaluation Office) has decided to promote an outreach visits strategy to disseminate GRADE recommendations and pharmacotherapeutical information. Each pharmacist intervened with the physicians following a previously trained procedure. These physicians were also given an anonymous questionnaire in order to know their opinion about the usefulness of the GRADE recommendations and if the intervention provides knowledge about the drug. According to the results, 86% of physicians believe that the visit added knowledge regarding the drug and 93% consider that the GRADE recommendations add clinical useful for the drug management.