Publications by authors named "L J Bevan"
The COVID-19 Resource Centre: an invaluable tool for primary care.
J Can Health Libr Assoc
August 2024
Background: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ontario-based Centre for Effective Practice (CEP) established the COVID-19 Resource Centre (CRC) in March 2020. This platform rapidly became a critical source of clinical and practice guidance for primary care providers, highlighting the importance of effective information synthesis during public health emergencies.
Description: The article discusses the development of the CRC, emphasizing the application of librarianship principles in navigating the challenges posed by the pandemic's information overload and the scarcity of evidence.
Article Synopsis
- Opioids, while commonly prescribed for pain management, pose safety risks; the study explores whether strategies like audit and feedback can improve prescription practices among primary care physicians in Ontario.
- The research used a matched-cohort design to compare the effects of audit and feedback, with or without academic detailing, on opioid prescribing rates over a 30-month period, focusing on family physicians.
- Results indicated a general decline in opioid prescriptions pre-intervention across all groups, with significant reductions in high-prescribing physicians in the audit and feedback group, but no notable difference post-intervention between the groups, suggesting future efforts should target high-volume prescribers.
Dissemination of the Women-Centred HIV Care Model: A Multimodal Process and Evaluation.
J Int Assoc Provid AIDS Care
February 2024
Article Synopsis
- The Women-Centred HIV Care (WCHC) Model was created using data from a national study and focus groups to improve healthcare delivery for women living with HIV.* -
- Two toolkits in English and French were developed for service providers and women with HIV, with extensive outreach through webinars and training sessions, reaching over 300 individuals.* -
- The initiative showed positive outcomes, with a 29% increase in WCHC knowledge and high confidence in care abilities among participants, along with 7766 downloads of the toolkits by December 2023.*
Background: Efforts to maximize the impact of healthcare improvement interventions are hampered when intervention components are not well defined or described, precluding the ability to understand how and why interventions are expected to work.
Method: We partnered with two organizations delivering province-wide quality improvement interventions to establish how they envisaged their interventions lead to change (their underlying causal assumptions) and to identify active ingredients (behavior change techniques [BCTs]). The interventions assessed were an audit and feedback report and an academic detailing program.
Background: Academic detailing, an educational outreach service for family physicians, was funded by the Ontario government to address gaps in opioid prescribing and pain management. We sought to evaluate the impact of academic detailing on opioid prescribing, and to understand how and why academic detailing may have influenced opioid prescribing.
Methods: In this mixed-methods study, we collected quantitative and qualitative data concurrently from 2017 to 2019 in Ontario, Canada.