Gorzkiewicz Vanita, Lacroix Jeanie, Kingsbury Kori
Hospital Reports Department, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), Canada.
Healthc Q. 2012;15(1):22-5. doi: 10.12927/hcq.2012.22771.
Health system stakeholders at different levels are focused more than ever on improvements to quality of care. With heart disease continuing to be a top health issue for Canadians, quality improvement initiatives aimed at improving cardiac care are increasingly important. The Cardiac Care Quality Indicators are one such initiative, with the goal of supporting cardiac care centres in their quality improvement efforts by providing comparable facility-level information on a number of cardiac quality outcome indicators. Working together, the Canadian Institute for Health Information and the Cardiac Care Network of Ontario completed the pilot project for this initiative in Ontario and British Columbia in 2010. Based on the success of the pilot, a national expansion of the initiative is currently under way. This article details some of the processes that led to the success of the project and presents some high-level, de-identified results.
各级卫生系统利益相关者比以往任何时候都更关注医疗质量的提升。心脏病仍是加拿大人面临的首要健康问题，旨在改善心脏护理的质量改进举措愈发重要。心脏护理质量指标就是这样一项举措，其目标是通过提供一系列心脏质量结果指标的可比较机构层面信息，来支持心脏护理中心的质量改进工作。加拿大卫生信息研究所和安大略省心脏护理网络于2010年在安大略省和不列颠哥伦比亚省共同完成了该举措的试点项目。基于试点的成功，该举措目前正在全国范围内推广。本文详细介绍了促成该项目成功的一些流程，并展示了一些经过高度概括且去除身份识别信息的结果。
