Journal
HEALTH POLICY
Volume 126, Issue 8, Pages 749-754Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.05.019
Keywords
Quality programme; Quality improvement collaboratives; Health care; Implementation; Denmark
Funding
- Health Research Fund of Central Denmark Region (DK) [A2075]
- DEFACTUM, Central Denmark Region (DK)
- Aarhus University, Graduate School of Health Sciences (DK)
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This article presents the organizational set up and anticipated effects of using Quality Improvement Collaboratives (QICs) within the Danish Health Care Quality Programme (DHCQP). The Danish set up is related to the common international use of QICs and the existing evidence for their effectiveness and implementation. The main trends in the DHCQP are the centralization of quality improvement strategies and integration of quality improvement work in clinical practices.
Policy-makers worldwide place quality in health care high on their agendas. Inspired by global trends within health care governance, there has been an increase in patient-oriented and network-based models for quality improvement. In 2015, the Danish Government introduced the Danish Health Care Quality Programme (DHCQP) for the entire Danish health care system in line with this development. For the first time in Denmark, the DHCQP introduced network-based quality improvement collaboratives (QICs) as a model for the implementation of a national quality improvement reform. This article presents the organisational set up and anticipated effects of using QICs within the DHCQP. The Danish set-up is related to the common international use of QICs and the existing evidence for their effectiveness and implementation. The analysis demonstrates a novel organisational set-up embedded in the organisation of the QICs. Furthermore, the article points to two main trends in the DHCQP, namely, centralisation of quality improvement strategies and integration of quality improvement work in clinical practices, and furthermore proposes a need for future research concerning implementation of QICs. Particularly, there is a need to investigate the different activities and organisational mechanisms in the implementation process and how these influence the implementation and functioning of QICs.
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