An Environmental Scan and Evaluation of Home Dialysis Quality Indicators Currently Used in Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Quality indicators are important tools to measure and ultimately improve the quality of care provided. Performance measurement may be particularly helpful to grow disciplines that are underutilized and cost-effective, such as home dialysis (peritoneal dialysis and home hemodialysis).

Objective

To identify and catalog home dialysis quality indicators currently used in Canada, as well as to evaluate these indicators as a starting point for future collaboration and standardization of quality indicators across Canada.

Design

An environmental scan of quality indicators from provincial organizations, quality organizations, and stakeholders.

Setting

Sixteen-member pan-Canadian panel with expertise in both nephrology and quality improvement.

Patients

SUBMITTER: Dubrofsky L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7734484 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature