Identifying risk and protective factors for quality clinical practice
Publication year: 2015
We identified two overviews of systematic reviews, 18
systematic reviews and 17 primary studies from our
searches that were relevant to the questions posed. The
primary studies address the first question about risk
factors for unsafe clinical practice, and both of the
overviews and all of the systematic reviews address the
second question about mechanisms to keep a healthy
clinical practice. We also included one paper that
provides an overview of key systematic reviews from the
Cochrane Collaboration Effective Practice and
Organization of Care (EPOC) group.(2) Given that this
paper provides a succinct outline of the features of
interventions designed to optimize clinical practice as
well as a synthesis of findings from the highest quality
and most up-to-date systematic reviews, our synthesis for the second question primarily draws from the
overview, with all of the additional reviews we identified provided in Appendix 1.