Correspondence. Quality indicators for general practice

Primary care quality indicators for children: measuring quality in UK general practice

BACKGROUND Child health care is an important part of the UK general practice workload; in 2009 children aged <15 years accounted for 10.9% of consultations. However, only 1.2% of the UK's Quality and Outcomes Framework pay-for-performance incentive points relate specifically to children. AIM To improve the quality of care provided for children and adolescents by defining a set of quality indi...

Quality indicators in colonoscopy practice.

The Royal College of General Practitioners Policy Statement Quality Indicators in General Practice

• Measurement has a high profile in modern health care systems because it can facilitate greater accountability and help to improve quality. • Some aspects of general practice care can be measured with greater validity and reliability than others-sometimes meaning some important areas are overlooked. • There are some significant conceptual and practical problems with using quality indicators in...

Developing a framework of, and quality indicators for, general practice management in Europe.

OBJECTIVES To develop a framework for general practice management made up of quality indicators shared by six European countries. METHODS Two-round postal Delphi questionnaire in the setting of general practice in Belgium, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Six national expert panels, each consisting of 10 members, primarily primary care practitioners and ex...

Quality in general practice.

Introdnction This paper reports the first of a series of trainee general practitioner meetings held in 1978 for the practices in Hong Kong. It was presented by Kowloon Group Practice and the meeting was recorded on tape and later edited. The opening remarks by Col. Kilpatrick indicated that this was a new venture, in part a trainee project and in part a forum for all the trainees and trainers f...