Fostering evidence-based quality improvement for patient-centered medical homes: Initiating local quality councils to transform primary care

Conclusions:
Overall, quality councils successfully cultivated interdisciplinary, multilevel primary care quality improvement leadership with accountability mechanisms and generated frontline innovations suitable for spread. Practice level performance data and quality improvement project management support were critical.
Practice Implications:
In order to successfully facilitate systematic, sustainable primary care quality improvement, regional and executive health care system leaders should engage interdisciplinary practice level leadership in a priority-setting process that encourages frontline innovation and establish local structures such as quality councils to coordinate quality improvement initiatives, ensure accountability, and promote spread of best practices.

Source: Health Care Management Review - February 28, 2018 Category: American Health Tags: Features Source Type: research