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Balanced information for better care Academic Detailing for Health Care Decisionmakers At Alosa Health we believe that medical decisions should be based on unbiased evidencebased information. Our mission is to improve patient outcomes by identifying and disseminating the best evidence available and to support health care decisionmakers in providing optimal care free of any commercial influence. We accomplish this by assembling the best evidence on a given topic and disseminating it through several means including printbased materials and academic detailing interactive educational outreach to decisionmakers in their own offices to deliver the best evidence on optimal patient care. WHY ACADEMIC DETAILING Academic detailing reduces problematic prescribingIn the original academic detailing work targeted medication use went down by 14 Savings from unnecessary resource use can help pay for program costAn early formal benefitcost analysis found that academic detailing saved 2 for every 1 spent.