High and Sustained Participation in a Multi-year Voluntary Performance Measurement Initiative Among Primary Care Teams.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The province of Ontario, Canada has made major investments in interdisciplinary primary care teams. There is interest in both demonstrating and improving the quality of care they provide. Challenges include lack of consensus on the definition of quality and evidence that the process of measuring quality can be counter-productive to actually achieving it. This study describes how primary care teams in Ontario voluntarily measured quality at the team level.

Methods

Data for this 4-year observational study came from electronic medical records (EMRs), patient surveys and administrative reports. Descriptive statistics were calculated for individual measures (eg, access, preventive interventions) and composite indicators of quality and healthcare system costs. Repeated

SUBMITTER: Mulder C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9309939 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature