Measurement and Review >> Deciding on the evidence-based measures

d. Other data sources

Some aspects of your agreed evidence framework may be difficult to transform into indicators, even though the project believes these to be important, for example the effectiveness or cultural appropriateness of the communication between clinician and patient.

Your project may consider supplementing the agreed set of indicators with other approaches to obtain feedback about clinical care. These might include:

• Conducting focus groups with patients; and/or
  
• Patient surveys.

Your project may also want to understand clinicians� attitudes towards evidence-based practice, guidelines, multidisciplinary care, etc. This might involve a clinician survey that could have multiple purposes, for example:

• to inform the design of interventions to improve practice; and/or
  
  
• to gauge the impact of the project over time in the care system (through re-administration of the survey and comparison with the baseline picture).