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Strategies for disseminating recommendations or guidelines to patients: a systematic review

Overview of attention for article published in Implementation Science, June 2016
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Title
Strategies for disseminating recommendations or guidelines to patients: a systematic review
Published in
Implementation Science, June 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13012-016-0447-x
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Authors

K. Schipper, M. Bakker, M. De Wit, J. C. F. Ket, T. A. Abma

Abstract

The aim of this systematic literature review was to assess what dissemination strategies are feasible to inform and educate patients about recommendations (also known as guidelines). The search was performed in February 2016 in PubMed, Ebsco/PsycINFO, Ebsco/CINAHL and Embase. Studies evaluating dissemination strategies, involving patients and/or reaching patients, were included. A hand search and a search in the grey literature, also done in February 2016, were added. Searches were not restricted by language or publication type. Publications that referred to (1) guideline(s) or recommendation(s), (2) dissemination, (3) dissemination with patients/patient organisations and (4) dissemination to patients/patient organisations were included in this article. Criteria 1 AND 2 were mandatory together with criteria 3 OR 4. The initial search revealed 3753 unique publications. Forty-seven articles met the inclusion criteria and were selected for detailed review. The hand search and grey literature resulted in four relevant articles. After reading the full text of the 47 articles, 21 were relevant for answering our research question. Most publications had low levels of evidence, 3 or 4 of the Oxford levels of evidence. One article had a level of evidence of 2(b). This article gives an overview of tools and strategies to disseminate recommendations to patients. Key factors of success were a dissemination plan, written at the start of the recommendation development process, involvement of patients in this development process and the use of a combination of traditional and innovative dissemination tools. The lack of strong evidence calls for more research of the effectiveness of different dissemination strategies as well as the barriers for implementing a strategic approach of dissemination. Our findings provide the first systematic overview of tools and strategies to disseminate recommendations to patients and patient organisations. Participation of patients in the whole process is one of the most important findings. These findings are relevant to develop, implement and evaluate more (effective) dissemination strategies which can improve health care.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 131 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 19 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 13%
Student > Master 11 8%
Student > Bachelor 10 8%
Other 8 6%
Other 25 19%
Unknown 43 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 31 23%
Nursing and Health Professions 17 13%
Social Sciences 8 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 3%
Engineering 3 2%
Other 23 17%
Unknown 47 35%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 40. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 August 2023.
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#1,006,979
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#18,780
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Outputs of similar age from Implementation Science
#2
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