Determining
Needs and Setting Priorities for Systems Change
Tool:
Assessment Survey
Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (ACIC) Survey
Developed by the MacColl Institute for Healthcare
Innovation
Health
organizations require practical assessment tools to guide quality
improvement efforts and evaluate changes in chronic illness care.
This Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (ACIC) survey, developed
by the MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation, helps medical
teams identify areas for improvement in their care for chronic illness,
and evaluate the level and nature of improvements made in their
system.
Tool |
Survey
to Help Assess Your Needs
Description:
Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (ACIC)
survey. Download an Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft
Word document at:
www.improvingchroniccare.org
/index.php?p=ACIC_Survey &s=35
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The
survey is divided into six sections corresponding to the six elements
of care in the Chronic Care Model developed by ICIC (click
here for more information on the Chronic Care Model).
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Organization of the health care delivery system
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Community linkages
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Patient self-management support
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Decision support
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Delivery system design
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Clinical information systems.
- Respondents,
usually practice teams and health plans, are asked to rate the
degree to which each component is being implemented within their
system, using a scale ranging from 0 (not at all) to 11 (fully).
To
aid in selecting a value, the ACIC provides general descriptions
for limited, basic, good, and excellent support of chronic illness
care in connection with that component. One of the advantages of
the ACIC is that the most advanced category (the highest possible
score for each item) describes optimal practice, educating respondents
about where they should be targeting their practice.
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