1 / 21

Quality and Costs of Primary Care in Europe

Background of the project. Lack of evidence on European PC Lack of comparative research (between European countries)Lack of evidence on certain topics (e.g. equity) (Kringos et al, BMC HSR 2010; 10:65)Previous studies have been performed; e.g. the 1993 task profile study by Boerma et alEurope

Gabriel
Download Presentation

Quality and Costs of Primary Care in Europe

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

    1. Quality and Costs of Primary Care in Europe

    2. Background of the project Lack of evidence on European PC Lack of comparative research (between European countries) Lack of evidence on certain topics (e.g. equity) (Kringos et al, BMC HSR 2010; 10:65) Previous studies have been performed; e.g. the 1993 task profile study by Boerma et al “Europe as laboratory for comparative research and a pool of good practices” (Groenewegen)

    5. And beyond..

    7. Data sources EXISTING: OECD HCQI (avoidable hospitalisation) OECD Health Equity Project (equity) System of Health Accounts (costs) PHAMEU Database (national PC structure) 1993 Task Profile Study (local PC organisation + process quality) NEW: GP survey (local PC organisation + process quality) Patients survey (responsiveness; patient-perceived outcomes)

    8. Data sources EXISTING: OECD HCQI (avoidable hospitalisation) OECD Health Equity Project (equity) System of Health Accounts (costs) PHAMEU Database (national PC structure) 1993 Task Profile Study (local PC organisation + process quality) NEW: GP survey (local PC organisation + process quality) Patients survey (responsiveness; patient-perceived outcomes)

    9. Development of the questionnaires Based on a literature and Internet search for existing questionnaires These existing questionnaires were used to formulate new questions which can be used to compare PC systems Expert consultation What has not been researched in previous studies?

    10. The GP and Patient surveys

    11. Who are we?

    12. QUALICOPC consortium (I) NIVEL – Netherlands Institute for health services research (coordinator) (The Netherlands) Wienke Boerma (project coordinator) Willemijn Schäfer Dionne Kringos Peter Groenewegen Ghent University, Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care (Belgium) Sara Willems Line Vermeulen Jan de Maeseneer Hochschule Fulda - University of Applied Sciences (Germany) Stefan Greß Stephanie Heinemann

    13. QUALICOPC Consortium (II) RIVM- National Institute for Public Health and the environment (The Netherlands) Michael van den Berg Gert Westert StANNA- Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Italy) Chiara Seghieri Giulia Capitani ULMF – University of Ljubjana (Slovenia) Danica Rotar - Pavlic Igor Švab Irena Mihalic

    14. National coordinators

    15. What can you expect? During the coming months invitations will be sent to GPs (random sample) GPs are asked to fill in a questionnaires and have a fieldworker in their practice who invites 10 patients to fill in a questionnaire

    16. Examples of hypotheses Process quality of PC services is positively associated with patient evaluations of PC quality; The degree of the organisation of PC practices in combination with quality of the PC process is negatively associated with the incidence of avoidable hospitalisations;

    17. Outcomes Evidence on the benefits of strong primary care systems Overview of quality of care in all these countries How does your country perform in comparison to other countries? How do patients experience care? Evidence on primary care related to aspects of equity

    18. Where can you find our results? Scientific articles written by project consortium and national coordinators Conference presentation EFPC 2012 Production of book Production policy brief Report on website

    19. Where are we now? Questionnaires have been developed and translated (incl. languages of the largest ethnic minority groups) Ethical approval has been obtained in largest part of the countries National coordinators will send out invitations to you…

    20. In press Schäfer, W.L.A., Boerma, W.G.W., Kringos, D.K., De Maeseneer, J., Greß, S., Heinemann, S., Rotar- Pavlic, D., Seghieri, C., Svab, I., Van den Berg, M.J., Vainieri, M., Westert, G., Willems, S. and Groenewegen, P.P., Study protocol: QUALICOPC, a multi-country study evaluating quality, costs and equity in primary care, BMC Family Practice, 2011

    21. More information QUALICOPC: www.qualicopc.eu PHAMEU: www.phameu.eu

More Related