The Queen’s Family Health Team (QFHT), an academic teaching clinic with 22 family physicians, 20 nursing and allied health members and 50+ family medicine residents rotating through the clinic, embarked on a quality improvement process in 2008.
QFHT has established a Quality Plan and framework to systematically improve quality across the team.
The team has met or exceeded the provincial targets set for:
- Influenza Immunization (80% of patients over age 65)
- Pediatric Immunization (96% completely immunized by the age of 30 months)
They’re on course to achieve, by 2013, provincial targets for:
- Cancer screening (Pap Smear, Mammogram and FOBT)
They have also made significant gains in increasing the percentage of patients who have their blood drawn within 28 days and remain within therapeutic range through their:
- Anticoagulation Management Program
See the QFHT Quality Plan to read about the results they achieved and how they accomplished these improvements in preventing illness and managing care.