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Ongoing studies

Imp 15-21 Szczepura: Systematic review of economic studies of reminders and decision support systems
Lead researcher: Dr Ala Szczepura, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

• IMP R2-64 Pitts: Effective practice: a randomised trial of dissemination and implementation strategies for guidelines for the appropriate extraction of third molar teeth.

Completed studies with executive summaries

• IMP 1-11 Armstrong: A qualitative study of GPs' reasons for changing or not changing their prescribing behaviour in two areas
• IMP 2-11 Cullum: Nurses' Use Of Research Information In Clinical Decision Making: A Descriptive and Analytical Study
• IMP 3-5 Feder: Communicating risk reduction to patients and clinicians in the secondary prevention of ischaemic heart disease: perspectives of inner city patients, general practitioners and practice nurses
• IMP 3-10 Wyatt: Investigation of Doctors' ability to understand and use clinical prognostic models when different metrics are used to describe model performance
• IMP 3-12 Bissell: Self-medication and the communication of risk: The case of deregulated medicines
• IMP 3-16 Edwards: A systematic review of risk communication - improving effective clinical practice and research in primary care
• IMP 4-13 Coulter: Availability of information material to promote evidence-based patient choice
• IMP 4-16 Gann: Increasingly effective? Evaluating improvements in the ability of health information services to provide information on clinical effectiveness
• IMP 4-21 Smith: Effective communication - an evaluation of touchscreen displays for providing information on prenatal diagnosis
• IMP 5-23 Yates: Understanding the reasons for change, or not, in clinical practice - the case for dilatation and curettage
• IMP 5-40 Hewison: Uptake of effective practices in maternity units
• IMP 5-41 Newton: Social networks and the use of research in clinical practice
• IMP 10-11 Moher: Evidence based secondary prevention of heart disease in primary care: a randomised controlled trial of three methods of implementation
• Download IMP 10-16 Baker: The format of recommendations trial: a study of the effectiveness and costs of guidelines, prioritised audit criteria, and feedback in implementing change (PDF, 68K)
• IMP 11-10 Rogers: A randomised trial of the effectiveness of strategies directed towards education and implementation and the adoption of evidence based developments in primary care
• IMP 11-26 McIntosh: Using informal learning in the implementation of research findings
• IMP 11-29 Freemantle: The effectiveness of continuing education conferences and workshops to improve the practice of health professionals
• IMP 12-8 Deeks: Systematic review of studies of effectiveness of teaching critical appraisal
• IMP 12-9 Taylor: A randomised-controlled trial of the effectiveness of critical appraisal skill workshops on health service decision makers in the South West region
• IMP 14-32 Thomas: Systematic review of the effectiveness of guidelines in professions allied to medicine
• IMP 15-4 Logan: A randomised trial of a simple prompting system in promoting appropriate management of iron deficiency anaemia and its influence on clinical outcome
• IMP 15-8 Walton: The effectiveness of computerised advice on drug dosage in improving prescribing practice
• IMP 15-9 Eccles: An evaluation of computerised guidelines for the management of two chronic conditions
• IMP 15-11 Wyatt: A Cochrane systematic review of the effects of paper and computer-based reminders and decision support on clinical practices and patient outcomes
• IMP 15-12 Thapar: Comparing a patient held prompt and reminder card to a doctor held prompt and reminder card to improve epilepsy care in the community
• IMP 15-19 Bowns: Maternity Guidelines Implemented on Computer (MaGIC)
• IMP 16-18 Freemantle: The impact of mass media campaigns on health services utilisation and health care outcomes. A systematic review of the literature.
• IMP 16-19 Kitzinger: The role of the media in public and professional understandings of breast cancer
• IMP 17-12 Grimshaw: Is the involvement of opinion leaders in the implementation of research findings a feasible strategy?
• IMP 17-13 Grimshaw: Prevention of deep vein thrombosis: A feasibility study for a randomised trial of three different strategies to implement evidence based guidelines
• IMP 19-15 Strang: The injecting drug taker and the community pharmacist: impact of new department of health guidelines and obstacles to a broader service-providing base
• IMP R2-25 Cheater: An evaluation of the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of audit and feedback and educational outreach in improving nursing practice and health care outcomes
• IMP R2-34 Clarke: Development and preliminary evaluation of decision interventions: a Clinical Guidance Programme, a Decision Chart and a Booklet for the prophylactic oophorectomy decision