“…On the other hand, the rate of inappropriate prescription of a 5HT 3 antagonist, alone or in combination, for the prevention of acute emesis induced by low emetogenic chemotherapy, was even greater (from 47.7 to 65.7%, P<0.0001). These findings confirm the results of a previous systematic review in which the dissemination of printed educational material alone was found ineffective in all adequately controlled trials, whereas positive effects were reported in all uncontrolled studies [7]. A similar poor result was achieved in the 13 centers randomized to receive a combination of two implementation strategies: the simple diffusion of guidelines and the information on their prescription pattern on antiemetics collected in a DU study in 1996 (audit and feedback implementation strategy).…”