1. 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

2. 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 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.

3. 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

4. Warm-up: Online Discussion Forum

5. Asthma Advisory Committee; March 1st, 2013

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Asthma Advisory Committee; March 1st, 2013