IMPROVE: Implementation of patient involvement instruments to improve general practice care for older people in Europe

• Unité de recherche: PCRD EU
• Numéro de projet: 99.0843
• Titre du projet anglais: IMPROVE: Implementation of patient involvement instruments to improve general practice care for older people in Europe

Mots-clé (Anglais)

Family practice; program development; quality of health care; patient empowerment; Life Sciences; Medicine; Health; Social Aspects

Autre Numéro de projet (Anglais)

EU project number: QLK6-1999-02035

Programme de recherche (Anglais)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 1.1.6 The ageing population and disabilities

Description succincte (Anglais)

See abstract

Autres indications (Anglais)

Full name of research-institution/enterprise:
Schweiz. Gesellschaft für Allgemeinmedizin SGAM
Arbeitsgruppe Forschung

Partenaires et organisations internationales (Anglais)

Coordinator: University of Nijmegen (NL)

Résumé des résultats (Abstract) (Anglais)

The proposed project develops and evaluates programmes that implement patient involvement instruments to improve general practice care for older people in Europe, resulting in an attractive toolkit of materials for general practitioners and patients in 11 European countries. Many instruments to measure patients' views and educate care providers have been developed but not implemented in clinical practice.
This project builds a toolkit in three steps:
1. An interview study to document and compare internationally the barriers for patient involvement in general practice care for older people.
2. Programme development and case studies to develop and select programmes that can help to implement patient involvement instruments in this area.
3 An international program evaluation to assess and compare internationally the most promising programmes.

Références bases de données (Anglais)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
Tel. [phone]
Swiss Project-Number: 99.0843