Benchmarks for low back pain in general practice in Flanders: electronic audit of INTEGO.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most frequent reasons for encounter in general practice. Yet results from literature show adherence to clinical practice guidelines is low. Audit & feedback is a well-known strategy to improve adherence to guidelines. Benchmarking is an important step in the audit & feedback process. The objective of this study was to develop data-derived benchmarks for low back pain quality indicators.

Methods

Four electronic health record extractable quality indicators were selected from an existing indicator set developed by CEBAM, an independent, multidisciplinary and interuniversity medical scientific institute in Belgium. Data from 2021-2022 from INTEGO, a general practice morbidity registry, were used to calculate benchmarks for the four qu

SUBMITTER: Paridaens R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11660715 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature