title: Patient focus and the quality framework.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Quality Framework for Australian General Practice provides a mechanism for planning and assessing quality improvement initiatives in an Australian context that takes account of the perspective of patients in the health care system.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This article examines the patient focus domain of the quality framework.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The quality framework is applied to the patient focus domain using examples such as the patient centred model of the consultation, consumer expectations of the general practice of the future, and health inequalities and the role of general practice.
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Australia. bj.booth@unsw.edu.au
authors.forename: Barbara J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Booth
authors.forename: Tony
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: McBride
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans; D009313:National Health Programs; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011787:Quality of Health Care