Table 1 Examples of interventions to promote professional behaviour change.

Educational outreach visits

A personal visit by a trained person to a health care provider in his or her own setting

Reminders (manual or computerised]

Prompts performance of a patient specific clinical action

Interactive educational meetings

Participation of health care providers in workshops that include discussion or practice

Audit and feedback

Any summary of clinical performance over a specified period of time

Local opinion leaders

Health professionals nominated by their colleagues as being educationally influential

Local consensus process

Inclusion of professionals in discussions to agreed the approach to managing a clinical problem that they have selected as important

Patient mediated interventions

Specific information sought from or given to patients

Educational materials

Distribution of recommendations for clinical care (such as clinical practice guidelines, audio-visual materials, electronic publications).

Didactic educational meetings

Lectures with minimal participant interaction

Financial incentives

payments directly rewarding health care providers for specified behaviours

Multifaceted interventions

A combination of two or more interventions