Assessing Quality Outcome Measures in Children with Coeliac Disease—Experience from Two UK Centres

Nutrients

Alexander Ross¹  Helen Shelley¹  Kim Novell¹  Elizabeth Ingham²  Julia Callan¹  Robert Heuschkel¹  Mary-Anne Morris² 

[1] Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK; E-Mails:;Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, NR4 7UY, UK; E-Mails:

关键词: quality outcome measures;    coeliac disease;    outpatient management;    patient satisfaction;   

DOI  :  10.3390/nu5114605

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Improved diagnosis of coeliac disease has increased incidence and therefore burden on the health care system. There are no quality outcome measures (QOM) in use nationally to assess hospital management of this condition. This study applied QOM devised by the East of England paediatric gastroenterology network to 99 patients reviewed at two tertiary hospitals in the Network, to assess the quality of care provided by nurse led and doctor led care models. The average performance across all QOM was 96.2% at Addenbrooke’s Hospital (AH), and 98.7% at Norfolk and Norwich Hospital (NNUH), whilst 95% (n = 18) of QOM were met. Patient satisfaction was high at both sites (uptake of questionnaire 53 of 99 patients in the study). The study showed a comparably high level of care delivered by both a nurse and doctor led service. Our quality assessment tools could be applied in the future by other centres to measure standards of care.

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