In one low-risk-of-bias trial, adding mentoring to a multifaceted intervention improved one physician behavior (antiplatelet medication use) while other behaviors showed no difference¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · review r3 · q3
Currency · newest study 2014 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q3 i? Compared to a multifaceted intervention without mentoring, physicians who received mentoring as part of the same kind of multifaceted intervention improved use of antiplatelet medication within 24 hours of admission (M = 20.2% vs. M = –3.9%, p = .02). → Abdullah 2014 q3 i? There was no difference between the mentoring and no-mentoring multifaceted groups in heparin use, ECG within 20 minutes of arriving in emergency, beta-blockers during hospitalization, and antiplatelet medications at discharge. → Abdullah 2014 (2)

Evidence¶

Abdullah 2014¶

Abdullah, G., Rossy, D., Ploeg, J., Davies, B., Higuchi, K., Sikora, L., & Stacey, D. (2014). Measuring the Effectiveness of Mentoring as a Knowledge Translation Intervention for Implementing Empirical Evidence: A Systematic Review. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 11(5), 284-300. https://doi.org/10.1111/wvn.12060

q3 · i? · review · r3

Cluster-randomized trial (Berner et al., 2003) in tertiary care with 1076 physicians implementing an unstable angina guideline; the review reports the mentoring-added group improved antiplatelet medication use within 24 hours (M = 20.2% vs. M = –3.9%, p = .02).

"Compared to a multifaceted intervention without mentoring (i.e., educational meetings combined with educational materials, and audit and feedback), physicians who received mentoring as part of the same kind of multifaceted intervention improved use of antiplatelet medication within 24 hours of admission (M = 20.2% vs. M = –3.9%, p = .02; Berner et al., 2003)."

Abdullah 2014 (2)¶

Abdullah, G., Rossy, D., Ploeg, J., Davies, B., Higuchi, K., Sikora, L., & Stacey, D. (2014). Measuring the Effectiveness of Mentoring as a Knowledge Translation Intervention for Implementing Empirical Evidence: A Systematic Review. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 11(5), 284-300. https://doi.org/10.1111/wvn.12060

q3 · i? · review · r3

Same cluster-randomized trial (Berner et al., 2003): the review reports no difference between the mentoring and no-mentoring multifaceted groups on four other guideline behaviors; equivalence was not tested.

"There was no difference in heparin use, ECG within 20 minutes of arriving in emergency, beta-blockers during hospitalization, and antiplatelet medications at discharge."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Mentoring within multifaceted interventions outperformed single interventions (educational materials alone or educational meetings) on knowledge, beliefs, and evidence-use outcomes in several trials — related
• Multifaceted interventions with mentoring improved practitioners' knowledge, beliefs, and organizational outcomes in most studies, but showed mixed findings for behaviors and practitioner/patient outcomes — a broader claim this one bears on
• Mentoring alone as a knowledge translation intervention was evaluated in only one included study, which showed improvement in some behavioral outcomes — related
• Mentoring within multifaceted interventions compared to no intervention showed mixed effects on knowledge use, practitioner, and organizational outcomes — related