Turning the tide on chronic disease: how a province is using evidence to build quality improvement capacity.
Saskatchewan's Chronic Disease Management Collaborative is a quality improvement model that brings together healthcare providers to learn about, test and share experiences with improvement ideas in diabetes and coronary artery disease care. This innovative initiative was recently featured in Promising Practices, a monthly series produced by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation highlighting organizations that have invested their time, energy and resources to try to improve their ability to use research in the delivery of health services. The Promising Practices inventory can be found at www.chsrf.ca/promising/index_e.php.