Table 3 Barriers to reaching recommended treatment goals and possible interventions to address them
Possible barriers | Possible interventions |
|---|---|
Physicians are not accountable to anyone | - Feed-back on to what extent treatment goals are reached among his/her pool of patients (audit) |
Physicians are unsure of what treatment goal to use | - Give clear treatment goals (during outreach visit) - Point at the relatively high degree of consensus among guidelines (during outreach visit) |
Reluctance and unclear strategy among physicians on how to deal with insufficient treatment | - Support for decision-making if goal is not reached |
Physicians may be underestimating the consequence of under-treatment | - Educational outreach visit |