So in the early days of bringing to market a complex enterprise software product, the repeated feedback I got from nearly all my advisors was to make sure customers were paying for software licenses, not services.
The Delphi approach utilises groups of subject matter experts responding anonymously to a series of subsequent questionnaires, with repeated feedback used in order to reach consensus among the group [31, 32].
During the development process, the list was revised several times using a modified Delphi Method among the department consultants and based on repeated feedback from the users.
Effective preparation might allow during the skills laboratory session a focus on practicing and providing repeated feedback instead of using the time for instruction.
Recognition of a high prevalence of iron deficiency in anemic epoietin treated dialysis patients led to systematic study, with repeated feedback, of intravenous iron repletion.
Future work may also consider tailoring of feedback to additional concepts such as stage of change or self-efficacy as well as behaviour, and exploring the impact of providing repeated feedback contacts, in assessing feedback effectiveness.
The addition of repeated feedback on children's urinary cotinine levels to behaviour-changing strategies seemed to reduce the urine cotinine concentrations in children and the proportion of parents quitting smoking [ 17, 18].
One study on audit-based quality improvement conducted in a hospital setting in Laos found that a systematically organized education program with repeated feedback meetings improved the performance of prescribers at public hospitals, including the rational use of drugs [ 29].
It also seems worthwhile to study long-term effects of self-assessment and feedback by (1) examining data on repeated feedback and self-assessment over several years and (2) observation studies to examine whether physicians actually incorporate feedback into their teaching practices.
All participants will be invited to complete the full assessment questionnaire again 12 and 24 months after the baseline questionnaire is completed, to receive repeated feedback letters about changes in smoking status or key determinants (e.g. attitude, social influences and self-efficacy expectations).
