{
  "abstract": "Background Voluntary clinician engagement in audit and feedback (A&F) initiatives is often suboptimal. We compared a range of characteristics between physicians who voluntarily engaged and those who did not.Methods We conducted a retrospective cohort study using administrative databases and a survey. The cohort included Ontario primary care physicians practising between April 2017 and March 2020. The A&F group voluntarily enrolled in an A&F intervention; control physicians did not enrol. We compared demographic, practice and patient characteristics between groups. Four validated questionnaires measured beliefs about feedback and improvement. Logistic regression modelled adjusted odds of A&F engagement.Results Of 10 654 active primary care physicians in Ontario, 1400 voluntarily engaged in A&F compared with 9254 controls. Physicians had higher odds of engaging with A&F if they had a larger roster size (OR (95% CI) 2.75 (2.15 to 3.51), p<0.001) and worked in home care (1.75 (1.55 to 1.97), p<0.001), and lower odds of engaging if they had higher continuity of care (0.66 (0.49 to 0.90), p=0.008), practised for more years (0.53 (0.44 to 0.62), p<0.001) and enrolled in a fee-for-service model (0.74 (0.65 to 0.85), p<0.001). Physicians engaged with A&F had fewer racialised or immigrant patients (25% vs 30% in marginalisation quintile 5, standardised mean difference=0.10), while other demographic characteristics were similar. Among the survey respondents (36 A&F physicians and 90 controls), higher principal support (2.28 (1.29 to 4.48), p=0.008), lower perceived need for change (discrepancy) (0.39 (0.20 to 0.70), p=0.003) and lower engagement in QI (0.43 (0.18 to 0.88), p=0.032) predicted A&F engagement.Conclusion To expand A&F’s reach and impact, future efforts should (1) tailor outreach to physicians with larger, more diverse practice populations, (2) seek to understand why physicians with higher perceived need for change engage less, (3) understand which physicians are most likely to benefit and (4) co-design how to make A&F more relevant and actionable for those serving marginalised communities.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Women’s College Hospital Research and Innovation Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"
      ],
      "name": "Cherry Chu"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Women’s College Hospital Research and Innovation Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada",
        "Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"
      ],
      "name": "Noah Ivers"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Institute for Better Health, Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada"
      ],
      "name": "Braeden Terpou"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Women’s College Hospital Research and Innovation Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada",
        "University of Toronto Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"
      ],
      "name": "Mina Tadrous"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Institute for Better Health, Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada",
        "Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"
      ],
      "name": "Canyucel Gungor"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Women’s College Hospital Research and Innovation Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada",
        "Department of Nursing, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada"
      ],
      "name": "Geneviève Rouleau"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Institute for Better Health, Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada",
        "Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"
      ],
      "name": "Laura Desveaux"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Who chooses to engage? Understanding the characteristics of physicians who voluntarily engage with an audit and feedback intervention: a retrospective cohort study",
  "uid": "73cbcb1f-e36c-5f2f-8aa6-3896bcfe4bd4"
}