PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Manuel Praena-Crespo
AU  - Juan Ruiz-Canela
AU  - Nieves Aquino
AU  - Jose Sanchez-Diaz
AU  - Marisa García-Gestoso
TI  - Evidence-based asthma indicators for primary care using RAND method
DP  - 2013 Sep 01
TA  - European Respiratory Journal
PG  - P3834
VI  - 42
IP  - Suppl 57
4099  - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/42/Suppl_57/P3834.short
4100  - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/42/Suppl_57/P3834.full
SO  - Eur Respir J2013 Sep 01; 42
AB  - INTRODUCTIONTo value the asthma quality care is necessary to have right information and useful measure tools.AIMWe want to build quality indicators that to measure asthma care in primary care.METHODSWe use a modified RAND: systematic review of the literature on Quality Agencies and databases Embase, Cochrane and PubMed. After evaluating a number of indicators, we translated into Spanish. We invite 97 experts from across Spain through e-mail, to value each indicator, which was composed of various dimensions, using a Liker in two pass.We calculated the mean and median value for each indicator and its dimensions and the percentage agreement between them.RESULTS105 asthma indicators were selected from the review; 46 were sent to expert’s panel. In second phase Delphi, 44 people respond (28 paediatricians primary care, 8 pulmonologists, 3 nurses, and 2 allergists.32 indicators exceeded 70% of valuation, with agree of the expert panel. We measure aspects such as access to care, clinical effectiveness, patient-centred quality and patient safety asthmatic.CONCLUSIONWe present evaluation indicators for asthma care process with a high degree of agreement between different professionals who care for asthmatic patients.