Primary care quality for older adults: Practice-based quality measures derived from a RAND/UCLA appropriateness method study.

ABSTRACT: We established consensus on practice-based metrics that characterize quality of care for older primary care patients and can be examined using secondary health administrative data. We conducted a two-round RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method (RAM) study and recruited 10 Canadian clinicians and researchers with expertise relevant to the primary care of elderly patients. Informed by a literature review, the first RAM round evaluated the appropriateness and importance of candidate quality measures in an online questionnaire. Technical definitions were developed for each endorsed indicator to specify how the indicator could be operationalized using health administrative data. In a virtual synchronous meeting, the expert panel offered feedback on the technical specifications for the endorsed indic

SUBMITTER: Correia RH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10798529 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature