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[Systematic review of the primary care quality assessment instruments used in the last 10 years]
Alberto López García1, Patricia Barber Pérez2
1Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Campus de Tafira, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, España.
Objective:
There are numerous instruments in the scientific literature for the evaluation of the quality of Primary Care (PC) and to know which of them are the most used and in which countries provides more information to make a well-founded decision. The aim is to determine which, between 2013 and 2023, have been the instruments used to assess the international quality of PC, its evolution and geographical distribution.
Design:
Systematic review.
Data Sources:
PubMed and Embase. From March to December 2023.
Inclusion Criteria:
1) Validation studies of specific assessment instruments to measure the quality of PC and/or the satisfaction of patients, providers or managers. 2) carried out in the field of PC and 3) published between 1/01/2013 and 01/02/2023. 83 full-text articles were included.
Data Extraction:
From each publication, an instrument used to evaluate the quality of the PC, attributes of the PC it evaluates, recipient of the evaluation, user, provider or manager, year, and country.
Results:
Fifteen PC assessment instruments were found. The most widely used is the Primary Care Assessing Tool (PCAT), with wide geographical distribution, versions in several languages, is more limited in Europe, except in Spain, and is mostly used in the Primary Care Assessing Tool (PCAT).
Conclusions:
The PCAT, due to its cultural adaptability, availability in several languages, its ability to evaluate the fundamental principles of PC enunciated by the World Health Organization and to contemplate the perspectives of all health agents, is a complete, versatile, and consistent questionnaire for the evaluation of the quality of PC.
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