Characteristics and impact of interventions to support healthcare providers' compliance with guideline recommendations for breast cancer

Breast cancer clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) offer evidence-based recommendations to improve quality of healthcare for patients. Suboptimal compliance with breast cancer guideline recommendations remains frequent, and has been associated with a decreased survival. The aim of this systematic rev...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Ricci-Cabello, Ignacio|||0000-0002-4725-8274, Carvallo-Castañeda, Darla, Vásquez-Mejía, Adrián, Alonso-Coello, Pablo|||0000-0002-8001-8504, Saz-Parkinson, Zuleika|||0000-0002-3518-5899, Parmelli, Elena|||0000-0002-3730-8530, Morgano, Gian Paolo, Rigau, David|||0000-0003-0828-4872, Solà Arnau, Ivan|||0000-0003-0078-3706, Neamtiu, Luciana|||0000-0003-1164-6643, Niño de Guzmán, Ena Pery|||0000-0001-6587-2780
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:301745
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/301745
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1186/s13012-023-01267-2
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Breast cancer
Clinical guidelines
Compliance
Interventions
Systematic literature review
Descripción
Sumario:Breast cancer clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) offer evidence-based recommendations to improve quality of healthcare for patients. Suboptimal compliance with breast cancer guideline recommendations remains frequent, and has been associated with a decreased survival. The aim of this systematic review was to characterize and determine the impact of available interventions to support healthcare providers' compliance with CPGs recommendations in breast cancer healthcare. We searched for systematic reviews and primary studies in PubMed and Embase (from inception to May 2021). We included experimental and observational studies reporting on the use of interventions to support compliance with breast cancer CPGs. Eligibility assessment, data extraction and critical appraisal was conducted by one reviewer, and cross-checked by a second reviewer. Using the same approach, we synthesized the characteristics and the effects of the interventions by type of intervention (according to the EPOC taxonomy), and applied the GRADE framework to assess the certainty of evidence. We identified 35 primary studies reporting on 24 different interventions. Most frequently described interventions consisted in computerized decision support systems (12 studies); educational interventions (seven), audit and feedback (two), and multifaceted interventions (nine). There is low quality evidence that educational interventions targeted to healthcare professionals may improve compliance with recommendations concerning breast cancer screening, diagnosis and treatment. There is moderate quality evidence that reminder systems for healthcare professionals improve compliance with recommendations concerning breast cancer screening. There is low quality evidence that multifaceted interventions may improve compliance with recommendations concerning breast cancer screening. The effectiveness of the remaining types of interventions identified have not been evaluated with appropriate study designs for such purpose. There is very limited data on the costs of implementing these interventions. Different types of interventions to support compliance with breast cancer CPGs recommendations are available, and most of them show positive effects. More robust trials are needed to strengthen the available evidence base concerning their efficacy. Gathering data on the costs of implementing the proposed interventions is needed to inform decisions about their widespread implementation. CRD42018092884 (PROSPERO).