Health Quality Ontario would like your input on Quality Standards for Ontario. These are concise set of easy-to-understand statements outlining the best care possible for patients with selected conditions (see below for more details).
As part of the HQO’s provincial Primary Care Quality Advisory committee, AFHTO has already sent feedback on the general question of Quality Standards in primary care. One of AFHTO’s key messages is that primary care patients tend not to be “condition-specific.” They frequently have multiple complex issues. Quality Standards for primary care would ideally consider the complexity of questions associated with managing multiple morbidities and focus on building relationships with patients, in addition to helping manage individual body parts.
HQO is looking for feedback from individuals as well as organizations on draft Quality Standards on schizophrenia, major depression and on the behavioural symptoms of people living with dementia. You can review these Quality Standards and send comments directly to HQO. Some questions you might want to consider are:
- How helpful would these Quality Standards be in trying to manage YOUR patients?
- How would information about your performance on these Quality Standards help you make sense of other data you are already tracking regarding your performance?
- In general, how would Quality Standards help you focus your efforts to improve?
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