Attitudes and Opinions of Canadian Nephrologists Toward Continuous Quality Improvement Options.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

A shift to holding individual physicians accountable for patient outcomes, rather than facilities, is intuitively attractive to policy makers and to the public. We were interested in nephrologists' attitudes to, and awareness of, quality metrics and how nephrologists would view a potential switch from the current model of facility-based quality measurement and reporting to publically available reports at the individual physician level.

Design setting participants and measurements

The study was conducted using a web-based survey instrument (Online Appendix 1). The survey was initially pilot tested on a group of 8 nephrologists from across Canada. The survey was then finalized and e-mailed to 330 nephrologists through the Canadian Society of Nephrolog

SUBMITTER: Iskander C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5965948 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature