A national surveillance project on chronic kidney disease management in Canadian primary care: a study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Effective chronic disease care is dependent on well-organised quality improvement (QI) strategies that monitor processes of care and outcomes for optimal care delivery. Although healthcare is provincially/territorially structured in Canada, there are national networks such as the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN) as important facilitators for national QI-based studies to improve chronic disease care. The goal of our study is to improve the understanding of how patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are managed in primary care and the variation across practices and provinces and territories to drive improvements in care delivery.

Methods and analysis

The CPCSSN database contains anonymised health information from the electronic medi

SUBMITTER: Bello AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5629677 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature