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Timely intervention, monitoring and education MATTERS in MS (TIME MATTERS in MS): Development of a globally applicable quality improvement tool

BACKGROUND: Previously, consensus MS care standards were defined by MS specialist neurologists from 19 countries. We developed, piloted and refined an Excel-based quality improvement tool to enable MS services to benchmark against these standards. Here, we examine the refined tool. OBJECTIVE: To det...

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Autores principales: Hobart, Jeremy, Butzkueven, Helmut, Haartsen, Jodi, Ziemssen, Tjalf, Lane, Thirusha, Giovannoni, Gavin
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Publicado: SAGE Publications 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9465618/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36105273
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20552173221124023
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author Hobart, Jeremy
Butzkueven, Helmut
Haartsen, Jodi
Ziemssen, Tjalf
Lane, Thirusha
Giovannoni, Gavin
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Butzkueven, Helmut
Haartsen, Jodi
Ziemssen, Tjalf
Lane, Thirusha
Giovannoni, Gavin
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description BACKGROUND: Previously, consensus MS care standards were defined by MS specialist neurologists from 19 countries. We developed, piloted and refined an Excel-based quality improvement tool to enable MS services to benchmark against these standards. Here, we examine the refined tool. OBJECTIVE: To determine the applicability of the quality improvement tool in different healthcare settings. METHODS: MS centres across the globe were invited to pilot the quality improvement tool by coding the medical records of 36 adults with MS. We invited feedback on user friendliness, quality improvement tool usefulness and relevance of data collected. RESULTS: Seventeen centres from 14 countries participated; 14 completed the post-service evaluation survey. Over 50% of responders rated the tool ‘very easy’ or ‘easy’ to use and ‘very relevant’ to their service. Almost 85% of responders (11/13) planned to introduce changes to their service, including improvements in documentation, communication, interactions with colleagues and referrals; 85% would use a future shorter version of the tool. CONCLUSIONS: The quality improvement tool can enable MS centres globally to benchmark their services. Widespread uptake of a shorter tool may help MS centres to work towards achieving consensus standards for brain health-focused care. Incorporation into routine clinical practice would drive adoption.
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spelling pubmed-94656182022-09-13 Timely intervention, monitoring and education MATTERS in MS (TIME MATTERS in MS): Development of a globally applicable quality improvement tool Hobart, Jeremy Butzkueven, Helmut Haartsen, Jodi Ziemssen, Tjalf Lane, Thirusha Giovannoni, Gavin Mult Scler J Exp Transl Clin Original Research Article BACKGROUND: Previously, consensus MS care standards were defined by MS specialist neurologists from 19 countries. We developed, piloted and refined an Excel-based quality improvement tool to enable MS services to benchmark against these standards. Here, we examine the refined tool. OBJECTIVE: To determine the applicability of the quality improvement tool in different healthcare settings. METHODS: MS centres across the globe were invited to pilot the quality improvement tool by coding the medical records of 36 adults with MS. We invited feedback on user friendliness, quality improvement tool usefulness and relevance of data collected. RESULTS: Seventeen centres from 14 countries participated; 14 completed the post-service evaluation survey. Over 50% of responders rated the tool ‘very easy’ or ‘easy’ to use and ‘very relevant’ to their service. Almost 85% of responders (11/13) planned to introduce changes to their service, including improvements in documentation, communication, interactions with colleagues and referrals; 85% would use a future shorter version of the tool. CONCLUSIONS: The quality improvement tool can enable MS centres globally to benchmark their services. Widespread uptake of a shorter tool may help MS centres to work towards achieving consensus standards for brain health-focused care. Incorporation into routine clinical practice would drive adoption. SAGE Publications 2022-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9465618/ /pubmed/36105273 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20552173221124023 Text en © The Author(s), 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Hobart, Jeremy
Butzkueven, Helmut
Haartsen, Jodi
Ziemssen, Tjalf
Lane, Thirusha
Giovannoni, Gavin
Timely intervention, monitoring and education MATTERS in MS (TIME MATTERS in MS): Development of a globally applicable quality improvement tool
title Timely intervention, monitoring and education MATTERS in MS (TIME MATTERS in MS): Development of a globally applicable quality improvement tool
title_full Timely intervention, monitoring and education MATTERS in MS (TIME MATTERS in MS): Development of a globally applicable quality improvement tool
title_fullStr Timely intervention, monitoring and education MATTERS in MS (TIME MATTERS in MS): Development of a globally applicable quality improvement tool
title_full_unstemmed Timely intervention, monitoring and education MATTERS in MS (TIME MATTERS in MS): Development of a globally applicable quality improvement tool
title_short Timely intervention, monitoring and education MATTERS in MS (TIME MATTERS in MS): Development of a globally applicable quality improvement tool
title_sort timely intervention, monitoring and education matters in ms (time matters in ms): development of a globally applicable quality improvement tool
topic Original Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9465618/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36105273
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20552173221124023
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