Does accreditation of general practice promote patient-reported quality of care? A natural cluster randomised experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate whether accreditation of general practice in Denmark promotes patient-reported quality of care and patient satisfaction.

Design

A national cluster randomised case control study based on an online version of the Danish Patients Evaluate Practice questionnaire. Mixed effects ordered logit regression models taking account of clustering of patients in different municipalities were used in the analyses.

Setting

General practice in Denmark.

Participants

A representative sample of the Danish population.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

The primary outcome measure was patient-reported quality of care, and patient satisfaction with general practice and patient satisfaction with the general practitioner served as secondary outcome me

SUBMITTER: Riisgaard H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7295420 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature