Utilization Study and Evaluation of Educational Intervention on HbA1c Testing

In the context of audit and feedback interventions, the prescribing Portrait is a document produced by the Therapeutics Initiative that provides personalized prescribing feedback for clinicians in British Columbia. Portraits are used as a practice resource tool for reflection on prescribing or test-ordering patterns. Each Portrait topic provides data of individual prescriber's ordering of HbA1c tests within 90 days of a previous test along with evidence-based benchmarks or targets. Prescribers are also given access to a succinct review of the best available evidence on the topic and recommendations for future action in the Therapeutics Letter, a stand-alone publication that details the evidence for the recommended practice in a brief and practical manner. Therapeutics Letters include a systematic literature review on a clinical topic, and provide references for the data presented in the prescribing Portraits.

In the context of audit and feedback interventions, the prescribing Portrait is a document produced by the Therapeutics Initiative that provides personalized prescribing feedback for clinicians in British Columbia. Portraits are used as a practice resource tool for reflection on prescribing or test-ordering patterns. Each Portrait topic provides data of individual prescriber's ordering of HbA1c tests within 90 days of a previous test along with evidence-based benchmarks or targets. Prescribers are also given access to a succinct review of the best available evidence on the topic and recommendations for future action in the Therapeutics Letter, a stand-alone publication that details the evidence for the recommended practice in a brief and practical manner. Therapeutics Letters include a systematic literature review on a clinical topic, and provide references for the data presented in the prescribing Portraits.