Quality of chronic disease care in general practice: the development and validation of a provider interview tool.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This article describes the development and psychometric evaluation of an interview instrument to assess provider-reported quality of general practice care for patients with diabetes, cardiovascular disease and asthma--the Australian General Practice Clinical Care Interview (GPCCI).

Methods

We administered the GPCCI to 28 general practitioners (family physicians) in 10 general practices. We conducted an item analysis and assessed the internal consistency of the instrument. We next assessed the quality of care recorded in the medical records of 462 of the general practitioners' patients with Type 2 diabetes, ischaemic heart disease/hypertension and/or moderate to severe asthma. This was then compared with results of the GPCCI for each general practice.

Results

SUBMITTER: Proudfoot J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1865546 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature