SynthesisJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA2022
Effectiveness of clinical dashboards as audit and feedback or clinical decision support tools on medication use and test ordering: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 47 citations in OpenAlex.
- Digital patient safety interventions in primary care: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Effectiveness of interactive dashboards to optimize prescribing in general practice: a systematic review.Family practice · 2025Pooled it
- Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Effectiveness of interactive dashboards as audit and feedback tools in primary care: A systematic review.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
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- Effectiveness of Electronic Quality Improvement Activities to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease Risk in People With Chronic Kidney Disease in General Practice: Cluster Randomized Trial With Active Control.JMIR formative research · 2025 · on this mapTrial
- Dashboards to Improve Extractability of Cardiovascular Indicators in a Learning Health Care System: Mixed Methods Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Simple but complex: aged care healthcare professionals' perspectives on the design of a digital falls dashboard.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2025Article
- Action design research to develop an interactive dashboard to visualise and compare patient data from Irish general practice (CARA).BMJ open · 2025Article
- Usability Challenges in Electronic Health Records: Impact on Documentation Burden and Clinical Workflow: A Scoping Review.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2025Article
- "Less words, more pictures": creating and sharing data visualizations from a remote health monitoring system with clinicians to improve cancer pain management.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Article
- Development, Implementation, and Evaluation Methods for Dashboards in Health Care: Scoping Review.JMIR medical informatics · 2024Article
- Impact of a Disease-Focused Electronic Health Record Dashboard on Clinical Staff Efficiency in Previsit Patient Review in an Ambulatory Pulmonary Hypertension Care Clinic.Applied clinical informatics · 2024Article
- Effectiveness of de-implementation of low-value healthcare practices: an overview of systematic reviews.Implementation science : IS · 2024Review
- Compulsory Indications in Hospital Prescribing Software Tested with Antibacterial Prescriptions.AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science · 2024Article
- Acceptance and use of a clinical decision support system in musculoskeletal pain disorders - the SupportPrim project.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2023Article
- Post-implementation optimization of medication alerts in hospital computerized provider order entry systems: a scoping review.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2023Article
- Use of a Medication Safety Audit and Feedback Tool in the Emergency Department Is Affected by Prescribing Characteristics.Applied clinical informatics · 2023Article
- The Effectiveness of Interactive Dashboards to Optimise Antibiotic Prescribing in Primary Care: A Systematic Review.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundClinical dashboards used as audit and feedback (A&F) or clinical decision support systems (CDSS) are increasingly adopted in healthcare. However, their effectiveness in changing the behavior of clinicians or patients is still unclear. This systematic review aims to investigate the effectiveness of clinical dashboards used as CDSS or A&F tools (as a standalone intervention or part of a multifaceted intervention) in primary care or hospital settings on medication prescription/adherence and test ordering.
methodsSeven major databases were searched for relevant studies, from inception to August 2021. Two authors independently extracted data, assessed the risk of bias using the Cochrane RoB II scale, and evaluated the certainty of evidence using GRADE. Data on trial characteristics and intervention effect sizes were extracted. A narrative synthesis was performed to summarize the findings of the included trials.
resultsEleven randomized trials were included. Eight trials evaluated clinical dashboards as standalone interventions and provided conflicting evidence on changes in antibiotic prescribing and no effects on statin prescribing compared to usual care. Dashboards increased medication adherence in patients with inflammatory arthritis but not in kidney transplant recipients. Three trials investigated dashboards as part of multicomponent interventions revealing decreased use of opioids for low back pain, increased proportion of patients receiving cardiovascular risk screening, and reduced antibiotic prescribing for upper respiratory tract infections.
conclusionThere is limited evidence that dashboards integrated into electronic medical record systems and used as feedback or decision support tools may be associated with improvements in medication use and test ordering.
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