Mental health

Research Report on the Quebec Study Carried out Under the Pan-Canadian Project : Continuous Enhancement of Quality Measurement in Primary Mental Health Care: Closing the Implementation Loop (CEQM)

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 mean retained to habilitate stakeholders to better document their practices on crucial aspects for the quality of health care services. The intervention practices targeted were directly clinical and organizational.

The project’s contributions can be broken down into two components: activities to support the pan-Canadian project; and, in Quebec – more specifically in the provincial capital region-the research project endeavored to generate awareness among stakeholders about the need to improve the quality of primary mental health care and services.

The first two sections of the rep…