Government supervision on quality of smoking-cessation counselling in midwifery practices: a qualitative exploration.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Dutch Healthcare Inspectorate supervises care providers in order to improve quality of care. Recently the inspectorate assessed and promoted the use of a guideline on smoking-cessation counselling in midwifery practices. The supervision programme consisted of an announcement of the enforcement deadline for the guideline and site visits. The purpose of our qualitative study was to identify factors related to guideline adherence after the supervision programme, and investigate whether the programme had helped improve adherence.

Methods

We conducted semi-structured interviews with inspected and non-inspected midwives. Additionally, we studied documents and observed the inspection process. The sampled midwives all work in primary care midwifery practices providing

SUBMITTER: Oude Wesselink SF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5390412 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature