The role of audience characteristics and external factors in continuing medical education and physician change: effectiveness of continuing medical education: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Educational Guidelines.

@article{Lowe2009TheRO,
  title={The role of audience characteristics and external factors in continuing medical education and physician change: effectiveness of continuing medical education: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Educational Guidelines.},
  author={Mary Martin Lowe and Nancy L. Bennett and Alejandro Aparicio},
  journal={Chest},
  year={2009},
  volume={135 3 Suppl},
  pages={
          56S-61S
        }
}
BACKGROUND The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Evidence Report identified and assessed audience characteristics (internal factors) and external factors that influence the effectiveness of continuing medical education (CME) in changing physician behavior. METHODS Thirteen studies examined a series of CME audience characteristics (internal factors), and six studies looked at external factors to reinforce the effects of CME in changing behavior. RESULTS With regard to CME… 
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