University of New England

Chronic Care Improvement Module

 

Rapid Assessment Tools

The Practice Infrastructure Assessment Tool is designed to:

• Identify gaps in pre-requisite components for improving quality of care
• Prioritize target systems and activities for improvement
• Enable the design of technology and practice process improvements

The Quality of Patient Care Assessment Tool is designed to:

• Assess practice use of best practice guidelines by disease/condition
• Prioritize target indicators to improve
• Identify practice improvement strategies to focus on
• Identify project design issues to overcome

The Community-Based Health Services Linkage Tool is designed to:

• Assess the extent to which community health care needs are met by existing resources
• Identify additional resources needed
• Identify how existing resources can be better linked to primary care practices and patients for prevention, diagnosis and treatment

The Patient Barriers to Treatment and Self Management assessment will:

• Identify patient care access issues
• Identify self management knowledge, skills and attitudes
• Prioritize patient adherence targets and strategies for improvement