title: Should the healthcare compass in Australia point towards value-based primary healthcare?
abstract: This paper provides an overview of quality improvement in healthcare in an Australian context. Specifically, the paper considers issues around defining, quantifying, recording and incentivising quality improvement and accountability in primary healthcare. The role of newly emerging Primary Health Networks provides a context for the discussion. The paper draws on international learnings that provide a framework for examining the important elements of quality improvement among reforming primary healthcare organisations in order to support healthcare providers and offer an evidence base for policy makers and peak bodies moving forward.
authors.affiliation: Primary Health Care Research & Information Service, Discipline of General Practice, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia. Email.
authors.forename: Jodie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Oliver-Baxter
authors.affiliation: Primary Health Care Research & Information Service, Discipline of General Practice, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia. Email.
authors.forename: Lynsey
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.affiliation: Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute, School of Population Health, College of Medicine, Biology and the Environment, Building 63, Corner Mills and Egglestone Roads, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia. Email.
authors.forename: Paresh
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dawda
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D011320:Primary Health Care; D058996:Quality Improvement; D062505:Value-Based Purchasing