The Alberta Screening and Prevention Plus (ASaP+) measures, as described in this document, are selected to inform quality improvement work across all participating Primary Care Networks (PCN). These measures are anticipated to help clinic teams improve their confidence and capability to support patients with ASaP+ modifiable factors. Clinic teams are encouraged to use these measures as a learning tool (e.g., for PDSAs [Plan/Do/Study/Act]). While the actual values of the measures may be useful to clinic teams, the process of capturing these measures will also build skills and capacity within teams to measure for quality improvement.
These measures are not collected for the purpose of submission and will not be used for comparison purposes across clinics, rather the activities will leverage and build on existing ASaP work and enhance screening work. The data collected is an excellent opportunity for learning, reflective work and developing improvement.
The ASaP+ measures consist of four quantitative measures that will be obtained from the Electronic Medical Record (EMR). These measures are designed and calculated using the panel for each provider. Practices are encouraged to reflect on process (short term) and outcome (long term) measures to monitor progress toward goals and consistency of process implementation.
The feedback on the collection and use of these measures is intended to inform improvement over time. For some of these measures, PCNs and clinics may have existing processes for collection of screening data. The creation of new processes may be needed but when possible, developing systematic workflows layered onto existing processes is encouraged. Where existing processes do not exist, this document provides some strategies and suggested methodologies to help clinics get started.
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