Development of National Strategies for Implementing and Evaluating Evidence-Based Indicators for Benchmarking and Monitoring Asthma Care in Canada Teresa To Senior Scientist, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Why & How Objectives: To implement and evaluate uniform indicators to measure the quality of community and primary care for asthma and to compare between practices and across provinces in Canada. To collect standardized and uniform data for benchmarking and monitoring of quality of asthma care between practices and across provinces in Canada. Steps to Develop an Implementation & Evaluation Strategy Nov 2012- Feb 2013: Online discussion forum amongst various groups: clinicians, researchers and stakeholders April 9, 2013: A face-to-face meeting to be held at CRC Aim: To identify provincial-specific needs, barriers, recruitment, engagement, validation and evaluation plans.

Collaborators & Supporters Nancy Garvey - Senior Program Consultant, MOHLTC Alan Kaplan - Chair, Family Physician Airways Group of Canada Diane Lougheed - Co-Chair, Pan-Canadian Respiratory STandars INitiative for Electronic Health Records (PRESTINE) Robert Oliphant - President and CEO, Asthma Society of Canada Louise Pelletier - Director, Chronic Disease Surveillance and Monitoring Division, Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, PHAC Andrea Stevens-Lavigne - Vice-President of Provincial Programs, OLA Itamar Tamari - Chair, PCAP Advisory Anne Van Dam - Director, Research and Knowledge Translation, CLA/CTS Greg Webster - Director, Primary Health Care Information and Clinical Registries, CIHI

Warm-up: Online Discussion Forum

Asthma Advisory Committee; March 1st, 2013

Prepare Background: Survey Do you use API in your line of work Can you influence the use of API in asthma care 8 questions (agree/disagree) on barriers to increased use of API (e.g. too time consuming) Identify 3 most important questions in asthma quality of care for the next 5 yars How to establish effective collaboration

Face-to-Face Workshop Date: April 9, 2013 (Pre-CRC) Location: Quebec City Convention Centre Participants: 30 Agenda: Pre-Meeting Survey of Clinicians/Researchers/Policy Makers Overview of Provincial Asthma Indicator Activities (BC, SK, AB, MN, ON, QC, NS) Challenges and Opportunities 3 Focus Groups: Clinician and Patient Engagement Data Capture and Sharing Provincial and National Partnership/Collaboration/Leadership

Asthma Advisory Committee; March 1st, 2013 What to Accomplish A blueprint with recommendations and suggestions for the development of a national asthma indicator implementation and outcome evaluation strategy. Seek funding: September 2013 Operating Grant Competition and/or the Partnerships for Health System Improvement Competition in November 2013 Asthma Advisory Committee; March 1st, 2013

Asthma Advisory Committee; March 1st, 2013