Quality Improvement in the Care of Chronic Disease in Family Practice: the contribution of education

Dear colleagues - researchers and doctors,

On behalf of the organizing committee, we would like to invite you to the EGPRN meeting, which will be held in Ljubljana.

The theme of the meeting is Quality improvement in the care of chronic disease in family practice: the contribution of education and research. Our profession is under constant internal and external revision. We are facing many challenges in the development of structured clinical approach, organization of the practices and role of team members. Measuring practice performance and competence is provided in most countries. Development of quality control and constant aiming for improvement of our work have provoked a vast amount of research aimed to develop methods, tools and outcomes of quality in structured care for patients with chronic disease. Many positive, but also discureiging results of the structured care have been reported. On the other hand, patients' personal preferences can differ from the aims of quality care that we are pursuing. Patient centerdness and shared decisions need to be balanced with the quality indicators and paradigm of quality improvement.

The EGPRN meeting website http://meeting.egprn.org/home is open to receive your abstracts for this meeting.