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Integrated Primary Care Teams (IPCT) pilot project in Quebec: a protocol paper
- Source :
- BMJ Open
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- BMJ Publishing Group, 2015.
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Abstract
- Introduction The overall aim of this project is to help develop knowledge about primary care delivery models likely to improve the accessibility, quality and efficiency of care. Operationally, this objective will be achieved through supporting and evaluating 8 primary care team pilot sites that rely on an expanded nursing role within a more intensive team-based, interdisciplinary setting. Methods and analysis The first research component is aimed at supporting the development and implementation of the pilot projects, and is divided into 2 parts. The first part is a logical analysis based on interpreting available scientific data to understand the causal processes by which the objectives of the intervention being studied may be achieved. The second part is a developmental evaluation to support teams in the field in a participatory manner and thereby learn from experience. Operationally, the developmental evaluation phase mainly involves semistructured interviews. The second component of the project design focuses on evaluating pilot project results and assessing their costs. This component is in turn made up of 2 parts. Part 1 is a pre-and-post survey of patients receiving the intervention care to analyse their care experience. In part 2, each patient enrolled in part 1 (around 4000 patients) will be matched with 2 patients followed within a traditional primary care model, so that a comparative analysis of the accessibility, quality and efficiency of the intervention can be performed. The cohorts formed in this way will be followed longitudinally for 4 years. Ethics and dissemination The project, as well as all consent forms and research tools, have been accepted by 2 health sciences research ethics committees. The procedures used will conform to best practices regarding the anonymity of patients.
- Subjects :
- Program evaluation
primary healthcare team
Quality Assurance, Health Care
Best practice
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Pilot Projects
Health Services Accessibility
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
interdisciplinarity
Nursing
PRIMARY CARE
Clinical Protocols
Intervention (counseling)
Protocol
Medicine
Humans
Quality (business)
030212 general & internal medicine
Longitudinal Studies
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Protocol (science)
Patient Care Team
Medical education
Research ethics
Health economics
Primary Health Care
business.industry
030503 health policy & services
Health services research
Quebec
General Medicine
Health Services Research
0305 other medical science
business
Delivery of Health Care
Program Evaluation
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20446055
- Volume :
- 5
- Issue :
- 12
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BMJ Open
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a4a146dfb1944e8621422ca9367d6610