The Academic Collaborative Center 'Care practice and policy' aims to assess all factors involved in implementation of quality policy. This is a collaboration of Care Institute and NFU Consortium Quality of Care.

Objective

To promote the connection between policy and practice for continuous quality improvement through research on the roles of the actors involved and the processes and determinants involved in quality policy implementation.

Partners

  • Care Institute
  • NFU Consortium Quality of Care, in which Amsterdam UMC is represented by the Quality and Organization of health care section of the department of Public and Occupational Health

Examples

of activities in the field of education and training

  • Trainings and tools for Health Care Institute professionals to update them based on knowledge gathered in the research projects now underway (this is not an issue at this time and will occur when the first three projects deliver projects)

of activities in the field of research

  • Project Implementation of National Quality Advice (PhD Andrea Thoonsen) This research aims to provide insight into (preconditions for) successful implementation of national quality advice in daily practice and the influence of the role and send of the quality advice
  • The influence of national recommendations on the actions of medical specialists in daily practice. The aim is to investigate which sources of knowledge (such as training, peer advice, literature, guidelines) medical specialists use to guide their medical practice and what role national recommendations play in this

of activities in the area of care (innovation)

  • The research projects gather insight into how to best implement proposed plans for care innovation and translate that insight into products for practice. For example, the Mirror Information project aims to gain insight into the design choices that are relevant for mirror information interventions with the aim of implementing the appropriate use of care. As a product, this can lead to a guideline on how to design mirror information in such a way that you can use it to optimally focus on quality

Established in December 2019.
There is structural cooperation. A contract has been concluded with the partners.

Coordinator

Prof. dr. Martine de Bruijne: mc.debruyne@amsterdamumc.nl

Part of Division 10

This Academic Collaborative Center is part of one of the departments of Division 10 of Amsterdam UMC. An overview of all Academic Collaborative Centers identified by Division 10, can be found below.