status quo of quo vadis? - KCE

72 Quality development in general practice in Belgium: status quo or quo vadis ? KCE Reports 76
Query
• professional standards review organisation [EMTREE]
• quality circle [EMTREE]
• total quality management [EMTREE]
The Emtree terms were combined as follows:
#1 'general practice'/exp OR 'primary medical care'/exp AND [review]/lim AND
[humans]/lim AND [embase]/lim AND [1996-2007]/py
N=3678
#2 'clinical effectiveness'/exp OR 'clinical indicator'/exp OR 'performance measurement
system'/exp OR 'accreditation'/exp OR 'medical audit'/exp OR 'peer review'/exp OR
'professional standards review organisation' OR 'quality circle'/exp OR 'total quality
management'/exp AND [review]/lim AND [humans]/lim AND [1996-2007]/py
N=2905
#1 AND #2
N = 87
Finally one review was selected
COCHRANE database
MESH descriptors
Physicians, Family [MeSH]
• Family Practice [MeSH]
• Primary Health Care [MeSH]
• Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation [MeSH]
• Quality of Health Care [MeSH]
• Credentialing [MeSH]
• Total Quality Management [MeSH]
Query
#1 Physicians, Family [explode all trees] OR Family Practice [explode all trees] OR
Primary Health Care [explode all trees], from 1996 to 2007
N=22
#2 Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation [explode all trees] OR Quality of Health
Care [explode all trees] OR Credentialing [explode all trees] OR Total Quality
Management [explode all trees], from 1996 to 2007
N=2087
# 1 AND #2
N=20
Title/abstract screening
The initial list of 20 references was independently reviewed by two researchers (PL,
RR). The same method as the Medline search were used.
Finally, two articles were included{Gosden, 2000 #15; Giuffrida, 2000 #14}.
None of these was withheld in our review