Academic detailing is “university

University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...

 or non-commercial

Non-commercial

Non-commercial refers to an activity or entity that does not in some sense involve commerce, at least relative to similar activities that do have a commercial objective or emphasis...

-based educational outreach.” The process involves face-to-face education of prescribers by trained health care

Health care

Health care is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in medicine, chiropractic, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and other care providers...

 professionals, typically pharmacists, physicians, or nurses. The goal of academic detailing is to change prescribing of targeted drugs

DRUGS

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 to be consistent with medical evidence, support patient safety, and to be cost-effective medication choices and overall, to improve patient care. A key component of non-commercial or university-based academic detailing programs is that they (academic detailers, management, staff, program developers, etc.) do not have any financial links to the pharmaceutical industry. Academic detailing has been studied for over 25 years and is effective at improving prescribing of targeted medications about 5% from baseline. Though it is primarily used to affect prescribing, it is also used for other non-drug interventions.

Many academic detailing programs exist around the world. In the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, university-based state programs exist in Vermont

Vermont

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England...

 http://www.med.uvm.edu/ahec/TB1+BL.asp?SiteAreaID=290, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

 http://www.rxfacts.org, Oregon and South Carolina

South Carolina

South Carolina is a state in the Deep South of the United States that borders Georgia to the south, North Carolina to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Originally part of the Province of Carolina, the Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that declared independence...

 http://www.sccp.sc.edu/SCORxE. The National Resource Center for Academic Detailing (NaRCAD), funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in 2010 was created to help organizations with limited resources to establish and improve their own programs and to create a network of academic detailing programs. Programs also exist in Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 through the Canadian Academic Detailing Collaboration (CADC) http://ebm.oscarmcmaster.org/ebm-resources/CADC%20Handout%202008.doc and Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 through the Drug and Therapeutics Information Service (DATIS) and via the National Prescribing Service

National Prescribing Service

Established in March 1998, the National Prescribing Service is a non-profit organisation, funded by the Government of Australia's Department of Health and Ageing. Since July 2010, the organisation has been officially known as NPS.-Overview:...

(NPS). In Belgium academic detailing is provided by Project Farmaka http://www.farmaka.be