A Delphi study assessing the utility of quality improvement tools and resources in Australian primary care.

Objectives: To determine the relevance and utility of online tools and resources to support organisational performance development in primary care and to complement the Primary Care Practice Improvement Tool (PC-PIT).

Design: A purposively recruited Expert Advisory Panel of 12 end users used a modified Delphi technique to evaluate 53 tools and resources identified through a previously conducted systematic review. The panel comprised six practice managers and six general practitioners who had participated in the PC-PIT pilot study in 2013-2014.

Quality tools and resources to support organisational improvement integral to high-quality primary care: a systematic review of published and grey literature.

Objective: To conduct a systematic review of the literature to identify existing online primary care quality improvement tools and resources to support organisational improvement related to the seven elements in the Primary Care Practice Improvement Tool (PC-PIT), with the identified tools and resources to progress to a Delphi study for further assessment of relevance and utility.

Study Design: Systematic review of the international published and grey literature.

Data Sources: CINAHL, Embase and PubMed databases were searched in March 2014 for articles published between January 2004 and December 2013.

Trial of the Primary Care Practice Improvement Tool: building organisational performance in Australian general practice and primary health care.

Objective: To nationally trial the Primary Care Practice Improvement Tool (PC-PIT), an organisational performance improvement tool previously co-created with Australian primary care practices to increase their focus on relevant quality improvement (QI) activities.

Design: The study was conducted from March to December 2015 with volunteer general practices from a range of Australian primary care settings. We used a mixed-methods approach in two parts.