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Mary Ann O’Brien
Researcher at University of Toronto
Publications - 76
Citations - 11108
Mary Ann O’Brien is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 66 publications receiving 10184 citations. Previous affiliations of Mary Ann O’Brien include McMaster University & Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.
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Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes
Noah Ivers,Gro Jamtvedt,Signe Flottorp,Jane M. Young,Jan Odgaard-Jensen,Simon D. French,Mary Ann O’Brien,Marit Johansen,Jeremy M. Grimshaw,Andrew D Oxman +9 more
TL;DR: The results indicated that feedback may be more effective when baseline performance is low, the source is a supervisor or colleague, it is provided more than once, and the role of context and the targeted clinical behaviour was assessed.
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Changing provider behavior: an overview of systematic reviews of interventions.
Jeremy M. Grimshaw,Liz Shirran,Ruth Thomas,Graham Mowatt,Cynthia Fraser,Lisa Bero,Roberto Grilli,Emma Harvey,Andrew D Oxman,Mary Ann O’Brien +9 more
TL;DR: Although the current evidence base is incomplete, it provides valuable insights into the likely effectiveness of different interventions and future quality improvement or educational activities should be informed by the findings of systematic reviews of professional behavior change interventions.
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Continuing education meetings and workshops: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes
Louise Forsetlund,Arild Bjørndal,Arash Rashidian,Gro Jamtvedt,Mary Ann O’Brien,Fredric M. Wolf,Dave Davis,Jan Odgaard-Jensen,Andrew D Oxman +8 more
TL;DR: Educational meetings alone or combined with other interventions, can improve professional practice and healthcare outcomes for the patients and is most likely to be small and similar to other types of continuing medical education, such as audit and feedback, and educational outreach visits.
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Continuing education meetings and workshops: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes
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Effect of a decision aid on knowledge and treatment decision making for breast cancer surgery: a randomized trial.
Timothy J. Whelan,Mark Levine,Andrew R. Willan,Amiram Gafni,Ken Sanders,Doug Mirsky,Shelley Chambers,Mary Ann O’Brien,Susan Reid,Sacha Dubois +9 more
TL;DR: The decision board was helpful in improving communication and enabling women to make a choice regarding treatment, and should be considered by surgeons when communicating the different surgical options to women with breast cancer.