title: Establishing a Primary Care Performance Measurement Framework for Ontario.
abstract: A systematic approach to Primary Care Performance Measurement is needed to provide useful information on a regular basis to inform planning, management and quality improvement at both the practice and system levels. Based on an environmental scan, a summit of primary care stakeholders and a stakeholder survey and supported by Measures and Technical Working Groups, the Ontario Primary Care Performance Measurement Steering Committee, representing 20 stakeholder organizations, identified system- and practice-level measurement priorities and related specific performance measures across nine domains of primary care performance. This initiative addressed measures' selection and technical specification. It did not include data collection. Lessons learned in Ontario can assist other jurisdictions developing frameworks for monitoring and reporting on primary care performance. Cross-country alignment could lead to a coordinated approach to measure and target areas for primary care performance improvement in Canada.
authors.affiliation: Health Quality Ontario, Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
authors.forename: Wissam
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Haj-Ali
authors.affiliation: Departments of Family Medicine and Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, McMaster University Hamilton, ON.
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hutchison
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D009864:Ontario; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D058996:Quality Improvement / Q000592:standards*