Patient Perspectives of IBD Care and Services: An Integral Part of a Pan-Canadian Quality Improvement Initiative.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As beneficiaries of health service improvement initiatives, patients should have their perspectives of and gaps in care elicited to inform and guide the development of quality indicators to assess health care services. The purpose of this study was to identify patient perspectives amenable for conversion into measurable inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) care quality indicators.

Methods

Crohn's and Colitis Canada's Promoting Access and Care through Centres of Excellence (PACE) program organized four patient focus groups in three Canadian provinces in 2016 to capture the perspective of patients on IBD care services. The RQDA package in R was used for transcript analysis, theme identification and for building a theme hierarchy based on the number of citations. The mai

SUBMITTER: Vutcovici M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8561267 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature