Pragmatic Cluster Trial for Nursing Home Antipsychotic Prescribing

Online Audit + Feedback practice reports detailing prescribing performance for this class of medication for each prescriber in the nursing home. (Details: http://www.hqontario.ca/Quality-Improvement/Practice-Reports/Primary-Care)

"The Educational Outreach program will be delivered by academic detailers, health professionals (often nurses or pharmacists) who have received specific intensive training to support prescribing providers in a particular environment, in this case long-term care homes, to make the best or appropriate clinical decisions as possible. It is defined as: an innovative method of service-oriented educational outreach for front-line clinicians. It combines the interactive, one-on-one communication approach of industry detailers with the evidence-based, non-commercial information of academia. The Educational Outreach will be delivered in addition to online Audit + Feedback practice reports, which detail prescribing performance for this class of medication for each prescriber in the nursing home."