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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Quality of chronic disease care in general practice: the development and validation of a provider interview tool |
Author: | Proudfoot, J. Jayasinghe, U. Infante, F. Beilby, J. Amoroso, C. Powell Davies, G. Grimm, J. Holton, C. Bubner, T. Harris, M. |
Citation: | BMC Family Practice, 2007; 8(1):21-27 |
Publisher: | BioMed Central Ltd. |
Issue Date: | 2007 |
ISSN: | 1471-2296 1471-2296 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Judith Proudfoot, Upali W Jayasinghe, Fernando Infante, Justin Beilby, Cheryl Amoroso, Gawaine Powell Davies, Jane Grimm, Christine Holton, Tanya Bubner and Mark Harris |
Abstract: | <h4>Background</h4>This article describes the development and psychometric evaluation of an interview instrument to assess provider-reported quality of general practice care for patients with diabetes, cardiovascular disease and asthma--the Australian General Practice Clinical Care Interview (GPCCI).<h4>Methods</h4>We administered the GPCCI to 28 general practitioners (family physicians) in 10 general practices. We conducted an item analysis and assessed the internal consistency of the instrument. We next assessed the quality of care recorded in the medical records of 462 of the general practitioners' patients with Type 2 diabetes, ischaemic heart disease/hypertension and/or moderate to severe asthma. This was then compared with results of the GPCCI for each general practice.<h4>Results</h4>Good internal consistency was found for the overall GPCCI (Cronbach's alpha = 0.75). As far as the separate sub-scales were concerned, diabetes had good internal consistency (0.76) but the internal consistency of the heart disease and asthma subscales was not strong (0.49 and 0.16 respectively). There was high inter-rater reliability of the adjusted scores of data extracted from patients' medical notes for each of the three conditions. Correlations of the overall GPCCI and patients' medical notes audit, combined across the three conditions and aggregated to practice level, showed that a strong relationship (r = 0.84, p = 0.003) existed between the two indices of clinical care.<h4>Conclusion</h4>This study suggests that the GPCCI has good internal consistency and concurrent validity with patients' medical records in Australian general practice and warrants further evaluation of its properties, validity and utility. |
Keywords: | Humans Asthma Cardiovascular Diseases Diabetes Mellitus Reproducibility of Results Psychometrics Family Practice Middle Aged Disease Management Quality Assurance, Health Care Australia Female Male Interviews as Topic |
Rights: | © 2007 Proudfoot et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
DOI: | 10.1186/1471-2296-8-21 |
Published version: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2296/8/21 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest General Practice publications |
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