Selection of primary health care quality indicators in Europe: A Delphi study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe a protocol to achieve consensus on valid and important indicators to assess primary health care (PHC) quality regarding all clinical contexts of PHC in European health systems.

Study design

Qualitative study using the Delphi technique to gain consensus among European panels of experts comprising a heterogeneous professional background.

Methods

Potential candidate indicators were extracted and translated according to a set of informative elements (i.e., name, description, formula, unit of analysis, and sources). This list was then independently reviewed, and duplicates were removed totaling 1726 indicators. To guarantee a good response rate, indicators were distributed across 57 Delphi panels organized by clinical context. Each panel is a Delphi p

SUBMITTER: Lobo M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11500873 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature