Professional Intervention: Local Consensus Process

Definition: Inclusion of participating providers in discussion to ensure that they agreed that the chosen clinical problem was important and the approach to managing the problem was appropriate.

Effectiveness: No high quality or key reviews were identified.

Summary of Overall Findings from Reviews: No high quality or key reviews were identified.

Summary of Findings Related to Prescribing: No high quality or key reviews were identified.

Reviews Addressing This Intervention Quality Assessment Tool:
AMSTAR Score (of 11 points)
Beach MC, Gary TL, Price EG, Robinson K, Gozu A, Palacio A, Smarth C. Improving health care quality for racial/ethnic minorities: a systematic review of the best evidence regarding provider and organisation interventions. BMC Public Health 2006 6 (104):1-11. 5 (Medium)
Solomon DH, Hashimoto H, Daltroy L, Liang MH. Techniques to improve physicians' use of diagnostic tests: a new conceptual framework. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 1998 280 (23):2020-2027. 5 (Medium)
Ostini R, Hegney D, Jackson C, Williamson M, Mackson JM, Gurman K, Hall W, Tett SE. Systematic review of interventions to improve prescribing. Annals of Pharmacotherapy 2009 43 (3):502-513. 4 (Medium)