Quality care metrics (QC-M) in nursing and midwifery care processes: a rapid realist review (RRR) protocol.

ABSTRACT: Background: In 2018, the Office of the Nursing and Midwifery Services Director (ONMSD) completed phase one of work which culminated in the development and launch of seven research reports with defined suites of quality care process metrics (QC-Ms) and respective indicators for the practice areas - acute care, midwifery, children's, public health nursing, older persons, mental health and intellectual disability nursing in Ireland. This paper presents a rapid realist review protocol that will systematically review the literature that examines QC-M in practice; what worked, or did not work for whom, in what contexts, to what extent, how and why? Methods: The review will explore if there are benefits of using the QC-Ms and what are the contexts in which these mechanisms are triggered. The esse

SUBMITTER: O'Connor L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7848854 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature