Quality Improvement in Indigenous Primary Health Care: Leveraging Effective Ambulatory Practices (LEAP) (Old ID 22468)
Role
Principal Investigator
Description
Continuous quality improvement (CQI) initiatives are well-accepted as an effective means for improving quality of care at primary health care (PHC) services. However, there remains significant variation in the quality of care provided between individual services and the degree of response to CQI activities. This sis so despite active and effective CQI networks supported by a number of organisations. Understanding the detail of this variability is vital before quality improvement initiatives in Indigenous PHC can be effectively scaled-up and expanded. We aim to enhance understanding of how quality improvement initiatives in Indigenous PHC can be rolled out on a broader scale, particularly in services that face capacity and resource-based challenges, through I0 building on our understanding of how contextual factors interact to facilitate or limit the success of CQI initiatives; and ii) collaborative development and testing of a toolkit of interventions to address barriers to improvement.
Date
01 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2016
Project Type
GRANT
Keywords
Indigenous Health;Primary Health Care;Quality improvement;Continuous Quality Improvement;Workforce
Funding Body
Menzies School of Health Research
Amount
7000
Project Team
Cindy Woods;Komla Tsey;Rebecca Evans;Emma McBryde;Jacinta Elston