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- Title
Quality Improvement in Services for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Guiding Principles.
- Authors
Cobigo, Virginie; Martin, Lynn; Lysaght, Rosemary; Lunsky, Yona; Hickey, Robert; Ouellette-Kuntz, Hélène
- Abstract
Services and supports for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) worldwide have transitioned -- or currently are -- towards a community-based approach that enhances social inclusion. This paper presents principles that could guide quality improvement monitoring in community services for adults with IDD. The principles were developed through a series of activities aiming to better understand relevant service outcomes, such as social inclusion and choice; consultations with various stakeholder groups including persons with IDD; and review of available data about the users of services and supports for Ontarians with IDD. The five guiding principles are: (1) activities are embedded within a continuous quality improvement cycle; (2) activities focus on personal outcomes that are important to persons with IDD; (3) activities capture the multidimensional nature of the outcomes being measured; (4) knowledge is developed from multiple perspectives; and (5) knowledge is meaningful, actionable, and informs policy and service improvements. The paper also presents a possible way forward in operationalizing a quality improvement monitoring system related to services for adults with IDD.
- Subjects
ADULTS; INTELLECTUAL disabilities; DEVELOPMENTAL disabilities; SOCIAL integration; INTERGROUP relations
- Publication
Journal on Developmental Disabilities, 2014, Vol 20, Issue 2, p89
- ISSN
1188-9136
- Publication type
Article