Surfacing the causal assumptions and active ingredients of healthcare quality improvement interventions: An application to primary care opioid prescribing.
Nicola McClearyCelia LaurJustin PresseauGail DobellJonathan M C LamSharon GushueKatie HagelLindsay BevanLena SalachLaura DesveauxNoah M IversPublished in: Implementation research and practice (2023)
The interventions included a small range of BCTs addressing various clinical behaviors. This work provides a methodological example of how to apply a behavioral lens to surface the active ingredients, target clinical behaviors, and causal assumptions of existing large-scale improvement interventions that could be applied in other contexts to optimize effectiveness and facilitate scale and spread.