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This research report describes the contributions of the Quebec team to the project entitled "Continuous Enhancement of Quality Measurement in Primary Mental Health Care : Closing the Implementation Loop". The main aim of this project is to support efforts at improving the quality of primary mental health care. The identification of a small set of quality measures achieving consensus was the…

Hospital emergency departments play a central role in the health care system. They have become the main entry point for hospitalised patients and the resource of choice when primary care services are not available. As a result, emergency department utilisation is a good barometer of how the health system is working. However, the dominant portrait of emergency department utilisation has been…

Based on the indicators described, the report suggests that:

• A large majority of the population (86.6%) had had contacts with the health system in the two years preceding the study. While 15% of individuals reported being hospitalised and 31% going to an emergency department, 51% of individuals said they visited primary care organisations only.
• In the six months…

Interval cancers are cancers that are diagnosed during the interval between a negative screen and the subsequent screen. The rate of interval cancers is a performance indicator in the terms of reference of the Quebec Breast Cancer Screening Program (PQDCS). The PQDCS terms of reference do not set a standard for interval cancer rates, but the Evaluation Indicators Working Group, which monitors…

Here are the abstracts and PowerPoints of the North American Conference on deafness screening and intervention in early childhood (January 23-25, 2003).

The overall objective was to provide insight into clinical practice guidelines, their development and their implementation. The main focus was the conduction of a thorough literature review of all issues related to dissemination of clinical practice guidelines to physicians, and their eventual use. We offer that the reflections provided herein have done justice to the tasks originally defined…