Quality circles for quality improvement in primary health care: Their origins, spread, effectiveness and lacunae- A scoping review.

ABSTRACT: Quality circles or peer review groups, and similar structured small groups of 6-12 health care professionals meet regularly across Europe to reflect on and improve their standard practice. There is debate over their effectiveness in primary health care, especially over their potential to change practitioners' behaviour. Despite their popularity, we could not identify broad surveys of the literature on quality circles in a primary care context. Our scoping review was intended to identify possible definitions of quality circles, their origins, and reported effectiveness in primary health care, and to identify gaps in our knowledge. We searched appropriate databases and included any relevant paper on quality circles published until December 2017. We then compared information we found in the a

SUBMITTER: Rohrbasser A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6296539 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature