title: Framework for assessing quality of care for inflammatory bowel disease in Sweden.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To create and apply a framework for quality assessment and improvement in care for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  A framework for quality assessment and improvement was created for IBD based on two generally acknowledged quality models. The model of Donabedian (Df) offers a logistical and productive perspective and the Clinical Value Compass (CVC) model adds a management and service perspective. The framework creates a pedagogical tool to understand the balance between the dimensions of clinical care (CVC) and the components of clinical outcome (Df). The merged models create a framework of the care process dimensions as a whole, reflecting important parts of the IBD care delivery system in a local setting. Clinical and organizational quality measures were adopted from clinical experience and the literature and were integrated into the framework. Data were collected at the yearly check-up for 481 IBD patients during 2008. The application of the quality assessment framework was tested and evaluated in a local clinical IBD care setting in Jönköping County, Sweden.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The main outcome was the presentation of how locally-selected clinical quality measures, integrated into two complementary models to develop a framework, could be instrumental in assessing the quality of care delivered to patients with IBD. The selected quality measures of the framework noted less anemia in the population than previously reported, provided information about hospitalization rates and the few surgical procedures reported, and noted good access to the clinic.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The applied local quality framework was feasible and useful for assessing the quality of care delivered to IBD patients in a local setting.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Highland Hospital, S-57581 Eksjö, Sweden. martin.rejler@lj.se
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rejler
authors.forename: Jörgen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tholstrup
authors.forename: Mattias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Elg
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Spångéus
authors.forename: Boel Andersson
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Gäre
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015212:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D013548:Sweden; D055815:Young Adult