The panel management questionnaire: a tool to measure panel management capability

Perm J. 2015 Spring;19(2):4-9. doi: 10.7812/TPP/14-170. Epub 2015 Mar 1.

Abstract

Primary care practices are turning toward team-based strategies such as panel management, in which nonclinicians address routine preventive and chronic disease care tasks for a group of patients. No known validated instruments have been published for measuring panel management implementation. The authors developed the 12-item Panel Management Questionnaire (PMQ) measuring 4 domains. Data were assembled from self-administered cross-sectional surveys of 136 staff and 204 clinicians in 9 county and 5 university adult primary care clinics. Staff and clinician PMQ scores in each clinic were correlated. The clinic-level median PMQ score was positively associated with a composite clinic quality measure.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Validation Study

MeSH terms

  • Chronic Disease / therapy*
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Humans
  • Preventive Health Services / organization & administration*
  • Primary Health Care / organization & administration*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • San Francisco
  • Surveys and Questionnaires / standards*