Community-Level Quality Improvement and the Patient Experience for Chronic Illness Care.
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ABSTRACT: Objective
To determine whether chronically ill adults from communities participating in a community-level quality improvement effort reported greater improvement on four domains of patient experience: care coordination, patient satisfaction, provider interaction and support, and receipt of recommended care for diabetes.Study setting
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative provides multistakeholder alliances with funding and technical assistance to improve quality in their communities.Study design
This is a quasi-experimental, pre-post study. We used a difference-in-difference approach to detect relative changes over time on 16 survey-based outcome measures representing the four patient experience domains.Data collection
We surveyed adults with chronic illness(es) in 14 AF4Q communities and a national comparison group. Wave 1 was completed in 2008 (8,140 respondents) and wave 2 in 2012 (9,565 respondents).Principal findings
Respondents from AF4Q communities reported modestly greater improvement on patient satisfaction and receipt of recommended care for diabetes.Conclusions
Results suggest that community-level QI efforts led by multistakeholder alliances hold the potential to improve patient satisfaction and receipt of recommended care for diabetes, but the magnitude of the effect may be limited. However, there is less evidence that community-level QI can improve patient perceptions of care coordination or provider interaction and support.
SUBMITTER: McHugh M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4722218 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Community-Level Quality Improvement and the Patient Experience for Chronic Illness Care.
McHugh Megan M Harvey Jillian B JB Kang Raymond R Shi Yunfeng Y Scanlon Dennis P DP
Health services research 20150518 1
<h4>Objective</h4>To determine whether chronically ill adults from communities participating in a community-level quality improvement effort reported greater improvement on four domains of patient experience: care coordination, patient satisfaction, provider interaction and support, and receipt of recommended care for diabetes.<h4>Study setting</h4>The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative provides multistakeholder alliances with funding and technical ass ...[more]
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