Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (ACIC): A Practical Tool to Measure Quality Improvement

Health Services Research - Tập 37 Số 3 - Trang 791-820 - 2002
Amy E. Bonomi1, Edward H. Wagner2, Russell E. Glasgow3, Michael VonKorff2
1MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation, Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Seattle, WA 98101-1448, USA
2MacColl Institute
3AMC Cancer Research Center

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Objective. To describe initial testing of the Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (ACIC), a practical quality‐improvement tool to help organizations evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of their delivery of care for chronic illness in six areas: community linkages, self‐management support, decision support, delivery system design, information systems, and organization of care.

Data Sources. (1) Pre‐post, self‐report ACIC data from organizational teams enrolled in 13‐month quality‐improvement collaboratives focused on care for chronic illness; (2) independent faculty ratings of team progress at the end of collaborative.

Study design. Teams completed the ACIC at the beginning and end of the collaborative using a consensus format that produced average ratings of their system's approach to delivering care for the targeted chronic condition. Average ACIC subscale scores (ranging from 0 to 11, with 11 representing optimal care) for teams across all four collaboratives were obtained to indicate how teams rated their care for chronic illness before beginning improvement work. Paired t‐tests were used to evaluate the sensitivity of the ACIC to detect system improvements for teams in two (of four) collaboratives focused on care for diabetes and congestive heart failure (CHF). Pearson correlations between the ACIC subscale scores and a faculty rating of team performance were also obtained.

Results. Average baseline scores across all teams enrolled at the beginning of the collaboratives ranged from 4.36 (information systems) to 6.42 (organization of care), indicating basic to good care for chronic illness. All six ACIC subscale scores were responsive to system improvements diabetes and CHF teams made over the course of the collaboratives. The most substantial improvements were seen in decision support, delivery system design, and information systems. CHF teams had particularly high scores in self‐management support at the completion of the collaborative. Pearson correlations between the ACIC subscales and the faculty rating ranged from .28 to .52.

Conclusion. These results and feedback from teams suggest that the ACIC is responsive to health care quality‐improvement efforts and may be a useful tool to guide quality improvement in chronic illness care and to track progress over time.

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