Impact of a quality improvement program on primary healthcare in Canada: A mixed-method evaluation

Stewart B. Harris, Michael E. Green, Judith Belle Brown, Sharon Roberts, Grant Russell, Meghan Fournie, Susan Webster-Bogaert, Jann Paquette-Warren, Jyoti Kotecha, Han Han, Amardeep Thind, Moira Stewart, Sonja Reichert, Jordan W. Tompkins and Richard Birtwhistle

Health Policy, 2015, vol. 119, issue 4, 405-416

Abstract: Rigorous comprehensive evaluations of primary healthcare (PHC) quality improvement (QI) initiatives are lacking. This article describes the evaluation of the Quality Improvement and Innovation Partnership Learning Collaborative (QIIP-LC), an Ontario-wide PHC QI program targeting type 2 diabetes management, colorectal cancer (CRC) screening, access to care, and team functioning.

Keywords: Primary healthcare; Quality improvement; Interdisciplinary teams; Diabetes; Colorectal cancer screening; Advanced access; Evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2014.10.019

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