Physician participation in quality improvement work- interest and opportunity: a cross-sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lack of physician involvement in quality improvement threatens the success and sustainability of quality improvement measures. It is therefore important to assess physicians´ interests and opportunities to be involved in quality improvement and their experiences of such participation, both in hospital and general practice.

Methods

A cross-sectional postal survey was conducted on a representative sample of physicians in different job positions in Norway in 2019.

Results

The response rate was 72.6% (1513 of 2085). A large proportion (85.7%) of the physicians wanted to participate in quality improvement, and 68.6% had actively done so in the last year. Physicians' interest in quality improvement and their active participation was significantly related to the d

SUBMITTER: Deilkas ET 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9594954 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature