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Table 5 Stakeholder evaluation: stakeholders who found the information “useful or very useful” (GPs and pharmacists) or “helpful or very helpful” (veterans)

From: Bridging evidence-practice gaps: improving use of medicines in elderly Australian veterans

Intervention number and topic

GP feedback: useful or very useful#

Pharmacist feedback: useful or very useful#

Veteran feedback: helpful or very helpful#

2: Beta-blockers, take the next step for heart failure

69%

N/A*

81%

3: Diabetes triple check

71%

92%

82%

4: Clinical risk management: NSAIDs

73%

95%

80%

5: Antidepressants: three steps towards safer use

81%

92%

81%

6: Inhaled respiratory medicines: optimising use

80%

91%

86%

7: PPIs in GORD: Reduce the dose – keep the benefits

81%

95%

72%

8: Reducing adverse drug events for your veteran patients

84%

95%

86%

10: Constipation: a quality of life issue for veteran patients

84%

92%

72%

12: Antipsychotics in dementia

85%

93%

N/A*

13: Clopidogrel

86%

98%

87%

14: COPD

79%

90%

77%

15: Osteoporosis

84%

92%

77%

Average

80%

93%

80%

  1. #Percent of GPs, veterans or pharmacists who provided feedback.
  2. *No feedback was sought from pharmacists for intervention 2 or from veterans for intervention 12.