If other health care facilities are utilized, it may also deprive the ART clinic of feedback about illness episodes of their patients, information that can provide important clues about (severe) toxicities, drug interactions and ART failure.
In total 27 professionals (1 midwife, 4 pharmacists, 1 physician, 2 dieticians, 2 physician assistants, 2 physiotherapists, 2 skin therapists, 2 general practitioners, 1 speech therapist, 2 dental hygienists, 2 exercise therapists, 2, dentists, 2 dentist assistants, 1 occupational therapist, 1 general practice nurse and 1 nurse working in an anticoagulation clinic) gave feedback by e-mail.
After the clinics received feedback from the quitline fax referral triage center with a patient's documented outcome (e.g., enrolled in quitline service), the patient was sent one of two letters: a congratulatory letter if they chose to enroll or a letter offering further assistance to those that were not reached or elected not to enroll.
Clinical rheumatologists provided input as they tested the prototypes in clinic and offered feedback in research meetings.
In addition, an unblinded research assistant will randomly observe selected treatment sessions for all treatment arms at each physiotherapy clinic and provide feedback to the therapist.
An electronic medical record system (EMR) deployed in 66 antiretroviral therapy clinics in Malawi collects data that supervisors use to provide quarterly, clinic-level performance feedback.
Our study confirms that computer-based individual QL assessment in oncology clinics with immediate feedback of results to clinicians is possible and feasible.
The proposed model was implemented in the form of a web-based prototype and is currently being tested in several clinics to get feedback from the practitioners.
In addition to the SP experience, residents are directly observed in their continuity clinics and receive feedback while seeing their own patients.
The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility of computer-administered individual quality of life measurements in oncology clinics with immediate feedback of results to clinicians and to examine the impact of the information on consultations.
