Educational outreach visits could improve health-care practices
Authors/Editors: Costa LMB and Khanna J
Publisher/Journal: The WHO Reproductive Health Library
Publication date: 2008
Language: English
Overview
Educational outreach visits involve face-to-face meetings between an outside trained person and health-care professionals in their own practice setting. The aim of such visits is to provide information and feedback designed to improve the performance of health-care professionals. A new commentary by Laura Costa and Jitendra Khanna on the Cochrane review on this topic reports that even though randomized controlled trials have hitherto reported small to moderate benefits of this intervention, educational outreach visits have the potential to improve health-care practices in under-resourced settings, especially where health-care professionals lack opportunities and means for self-learning