Stakeholders' Perspectives on Quality Measurement of Oral Health Care in the Netherlands: A Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aimed to identify which barriers and facilitators exist and can be expected when measuring quality of oral health care according to different stakeholders in the Netherlands.

Methods

A total of 36 semistructured interviews were conducted with dentists, patients, universities and knowledge institutes, health insurance companies, professional dental associations, and governmental health organisations. Using qualitative content analysis, barriers and facilitators were classified according to the frameworks of Grol and Cabana.

Results

In total 70 barrier and 53 facilitating factors were identified in the 5 domains of the frameworks. Various stakeholders found quality measurement challenging because the quality of oral health care is difficult to defin

SUBMITTER: Righolt A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11999193 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature