作者
Willemijn LA Schäfer, Wienke GW Boerma, Dionne S Kringos, Jan De Maeseneer, Stefan Greß, Stephanie Heinemann, Danica Rotar-Pavlic, Chiara Seghieri, Igor Švab, Michael J Van den Berg, Milena Vainieri, Gert P Westert, Sara Willems, Peter P Groenewegen
发表日期
2011/12
期刊
BMC family practice
卷号
12
页码范围
1-9
出版商
BioMed Central
简介
Background
The QUALICOPC (Quality and Costs of Primary Care in Europe) study aims to evaluate the performance of primary care systems in Europe in terms of quality, equity and costs. The study will provide an answer to the question what strong primary care systems entail and which effects primary care systems have on the performance of health care systems. QUALICOPC is funded by the European Commission under the "Seventh Framework Programme". In this article the background and design of the QUALICOPC study is described.
Methods/design
QUALICOPC started in 2010 and will run until 2013. Data will be collected in 31 European countries (27 EU countries, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey) and in Australia, Israel and New Zealand. This study uses a three level approach of data collection: the system, practice and patient …
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