4CCORD: Quality Improvement & Upskilling

These projects are based at KEM and CMC in India.

Overview

Project title: 4CCORD: Implementing quality improvement & upskilling

Programme: Non-Communicable Diseases

Based at:  Christian Medical College Vellore (CMC)

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Principal investigator: Biswajit Paul

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Based at:  KEM Hospital Research Centre (KEM)

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Principal investigator: Dhiraj Agarwal

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Background

There are widespread concerns amongst RESPIRE partners about the lack of awareness of the burden of chronic respiratory disease (CRD) within their communities, healthcare services and amongst policymakers.

As part of this project, two RESPIRE institutions - Christian Medical College Vellore (CMC) and KEM Hospital Research Centre (KEM) - are working to improve the quality of, and access to upskilling for healthcare providers in India.

The team at CMC are conducting a pre-post educational intervention trial on enhancing CRD care through upskilling healthcare providers of the government health system in a rural district in India.

At KEM, researchers are assessing the feasibility and acceptability of integrating spirometry into the routine practice of primary care physicians in rural India for the effective diagnosis and management of CRDs.

 

Aim and Impact

Through this project, quasi-experimental studies in which local practices, community and health clinics will be provided with resources to diagnose and manage chronic respiratory disease. Resources include equipment (for example, peak flow meters), diagnostic services (such as spirometry), training for staff (including health care workers, nurses and GPs).

Working with general practices, community clinics and health clinics across various sites in India, information and action plans will be distributed to people with limited health literacy to improve CRD management. Routine health records and qualitative interviews with patients, staff and stakeholders will be used to understand the impact of this stream of work.

 

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This research is part of the 4CCORD programme, comprised of the following projects:

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