Ontario primary care reform and quality improvement activities: an environmental scan.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Quality improvement is attracting the attention of the primary health care system as a means by which to achieve higher quality patient care. Ontario, Canada has demonstrated leadership in terms of its improvement in healthcare, but the province lacks a structured framework by which it can consistently evaluate its quality improvement initiatives specific to the primary healthcare system. The intent of this research was to complete an environmental scan and capacity map of quality improvement activities being built in and by the primary healthcare sector (QI-PHC) in Ontario as a first step to developing a coordinated and sustainable framework of primary healthcare for the province.

Methods

Data were collected between January and July 2011 in collaboration with an

SUBMITTER: Sibbald SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3720221 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature