Open AccessChallenges and Strategies for Improving COPD Primary Care Services in Quebec: Results of the Experience of the COMPAS+ Quality Improvement Collaborative
Author(s) -
Brigitte Vachon,
Guylaine Giasson,
Isabelle Gaboury,
Dina Gaid,
Véronique Noël De Tilly,
Lise Houle,
Jean Bourbeau,
MariePascale Pomey
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/international journal of copd
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2005
pISSN - 1176-9106
DOI - 10.2147/copd.s341905
Subject(s) - copd , medicine , intervention (counseling) , quality (philosophy) , quality management , nursing , family medicine , management system , operations management , psychiatry , philosophy , epistemology , economics
Management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) remains a challenge in primary care and multiple barriers can limit implementation of COPD guidelines. Since 2016, a quality improvement (QI) collaborative, called COMPAS+, has been implemented across the province of Quebec (Canada) to support improvement of chronic disease management in primary care. The aim of this study was to describe the main COPD quality problems reported by participating teams and the strategies they proposed and implemented to improve COPD primary care services in Quebec.