Jyoti Kotecha, Judith Belle Brown, Han Han, Stewart B Harris, Michael Green, Grant Russell, Sharon Roberts, Susan Webster-Bogaert, Meghan Fournie, Amardeep Thind, Sonja M Reichert, Richard Birtwhistle
Quality improvement (QI) programs are frequently implemented to support primary healthcare (PHC) team development and to improve care outcomes. In Ontario, Canada, the Quality Improvement and Innovation Partnership (QIIP) offered a learning collaborative (LC) program to support the development of interdisciplinary team function and improve chronic disease management, disease prevention, and access to care. A qualitative study using a phenomenological approach was conducted as part of a mixed-method evaluation to explore the influence of the program on team functioning in participating PHC teams...
September 2015: Families, Systems & Health: the Journal of Collaborative Family Healthcare