title: Primary Care Practice Reports: Administrative Data Profiles for Identifying and Prioritizing Areas for Quality Improvement.
abstract: Information to help guide quality improvement activities in primary care should be readily available, routinely updated and include comparisons across groups, regions and jurisdictions. Primary care practice reports, developed jointly by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and Health Quality Ontario, is one such effort. These data include practice demographics, the prevalence of common chronic conditions, the use of health services and measures of chronic disease prevention and management. All Ontario primary care physicians can register for the profiles online using a secure logon; the profiles are available only to them. Enhancements under development include new formats, targets and tools to support quality improvement.
authors.affiliation: Senior scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES); a scientist with the Centre for Research on Inner City Health, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital; and a professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto and St. Michael's Hospital. Dr. Glazier may be contacted at rick.glazier@ices.on.ca.
authors.forename: Richard H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Glazier
authors.affiliation: Professor emeritus in the Departments of Family Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and senior advisor for primary care at Health Quality Ontario in Toronto, Ontario.
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hutchison
authors.affiliation: Senior analyst at ICES.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kopp
authors.affiliation: Director of Performance Measurement at Health Quality Ontario.
authors.forename: Gail
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dobell
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006292:Health Priorities; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009864:Ontario; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D058996:Quality Improvement; D055815:Young Adult