Keywords
Design for Health
Social Inclusion
Healthcare Technologies
Keywords
Social Inclusion
Healthcare Technologies
Design for Health
Partners | Funders
Funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) under its Programme Grants for Applied Research Programme (Grant Reference Number RP-PG-1210-12010)
Publications
Foy R, Lorencatto F, Walwyn R, Farrin A, Francis J, Gould N, et al. Enhanced feedback interventions to promote evidence-based blood transfusion guidance and reduce unnecessary use of blood components: the AFFINITIE research programme including two cluster factorial RCTs. Programme Grants Appl Res 2022;10(2). https://doi.org/10.3310/REHP1241
Hartley, S., Foy, R., Walwyn, R.E.A. et al. The evaluation of enhanced feedback interventions to reduce unnecessary blood transfusions (AFFINITIE): protocol for two linked cluster randomised factorial controlled trials. Implementation Sci 12, 84 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-017-0614-8
Lorencatto, F., Gould, N.J., McIntyre, S.A. et al. A multidimensional approach to assessing intervention fidelity in a process evaluation of audit and feedback interventions to reduce unnecessary blood transfusions: a study protocol. Implementation Sci 11, 163 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-016-0528-x
Project Summary
Blood transfusion is a common but costly treatment. Audits across the UK suggest that one-fifth of transfusions are unnecessary when judged against recommendations for good clinical practice. A considerable scope exists to improve the impact that audit and feedback has, particularly through head-to-head trials comparing different ways of delivering feedback.
The AFFINITIE (Development & Evaluation of Audit and Feedback INterventions to Increase evidence-based Transfusion practIcE) project developed a web-based tool aimed to improve blood transfusion practices within a national blood transfusion audit programme, to promote evidence-based guidance and reduce the unnecessary use of blood components.
AFFINITIE
Audit and Feedback Interventions to Increase Evidence-Based Transfusion Practice
