The effects of a team-based continuous quality improvement intervention on the management of primary care: a randomised controlled trial.
Fulltext:
49767.pdf
Embargo:
until further notice
Size:
175.0Kb
Format:
PDF
Description:
Publisher’s version
Publication year
2006Source
British Journal of General Practice, 56, 531, (2006), pp. 781-7ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor
Display more detailsDisplay less details
Organization
IQ Healthcare
General Practice
Former Organization
Centre for Quality of Care Research
Journal title
British Journal of General Practice
Volume
vol. 56
Issue
iss. 531
Page start
p. 781
Page end
p. 7
Subject
EBP 3: Effective Primary Care and Public Health; EBP 4: Quality of Care; NCEBP 3: Implementation Science; NCEBP 4: Quality of hospital and integrated care; NCEBP 7: Effective primary care and public healthAbstract
AIM: To study the effects of a team-based model for continuous quality improvement (CQI) on primary care practice management. DESIGN OF STUDY: Randomised controlled trial. SETTING: Twenty-six intervention and 23 control primary care practices in the Netherlands. METHOD: Practices interested in taking part in the CQI project were, after assessment of their practice organisation, randomly assigned to the intervention or control groups. During a total of five meetings, a facilitator helped the teams in the intervention group select suitable topics for quality improvement and follow a structured approach to achieve improvement objectives. Checklists completed by an outreach visitor, questionnaires for the GPs, staff and patients were used to assemble data on the number and quality of improvement activities undertaken and on practice management prior to the start of the intervention and 1 year later. RESULTS: Pre-test and post-test data were compared for the 26 intervention and 23 control practices. A significant intervention effect was found for the number of improvement objectives actually defined (93 versus 54, P<0.001) and successfully completed (80 versus 69% of the projects, P<0.001). The intervention group also improved on more aspects of practice management, as measured by our practice visit method, than the control group but none of these differences proved statistically significant. CONCLUSION: The intervention exerted a significant effect on the number and quality of improvement projects undertaken and self-defined objectives met. Failure of the effects of the intervention on the other dimensions of practice management to achieve significance may be due to the topics selected for some of the improvement projects being only partly covered by the assessment instrument.
This item appears in the following Collection(s)
- Academic publications [238441]
- Electronic publications [122512]
- Faculty of Medical Sciences [90373]
Upload full text
Use your RU credentials (u/z-number and password) to log in with SURFconext to upload a file for processing by the repository team.