Monitoring quality in Israeli primary care: The primary care physicians' perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Since 2000, Israel has had a national program for ongoing monitoring of the quality of the primary care services provided by the country's four competing non-profit health plans. Previous research has demonstrated that quality of care has improved substantially since the program's inception and that the program enjoys wide support among health plan managers. However, prior to this study there were anecdotal and journalistic reports of opposition to the program among primary care physicians engaged in direct service delivery; these raised serious questions about the extent of support among physicians nationally.

Goals

To assess how Israeli primary care physicians experience and rate health plan efforts to track and improve the quality of care.

Method

The stu

SUBMITTER: Nissanholtz-Gannot R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3472172 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature