Quality of care in general practice and a fixed denominator.
The NHG, the college of general practitioners in the Netherlands, has developed a national programme of standard setting in which 25 standards have been published since 1989 on quite different subjects. Its ultimate goal is to improve the quality of care in general practice. Both health insurance companies and governmental organizations are very interested in all the aspects of quality assurance and assessment allied with the programme. The fixed denominator for general practice in the Dutch health care system is of essential value with regard to the selection of topics to be standardized, the evaluation of the programme and the investigations into the consequences of the introduction of standards. Its role is demonstrated and discussed as a modal example.
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Nederlands Huisartsen Genootschap, Utrecht.
D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005194:Family Practice / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D009017:Morbidity; D009426:Netherlands; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010380:Peer Review; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data