A quality assurance study of the development of quality of care in outpatient clinics for treatment of addiction in Greenland

Figures & data

Figure 1. Total number of treatment courses per year and treatment center.

Table 1. Distribution of the number of patients and median age and weeks in treatment per year.

		2019 (N = 82)	2020 (N = 302)	2021 (N = 70)	p-value
Age, median		37.0 (29.0, 45.0)	38.0 (29.0, 52.0)	35.0 (27.0, 48.0)	0.11
Treatment center	Aasiaat	26 (30.9%)	36 (12.0%)	0 (0.0%)
	Ilulissat	42 (51.9%)	50 (16.6%)	17 (24.3%)
	Nuuk	0 (0.0%)	152 (50.2%)	33 (47.1%)
	Qaqortoq	14 (17.3%)	19 (6.3%)	0 (0.0%)
	Sisimiut	0 (0.0%)	45 (15.0%)	20 (28.6%)
Weeks in treatment, median		13.0 (7.0, 25.0)	8.0 (4.0, 16.0)	11.5 (7.0, 16.5)	0.010

Table 1 displays the difference in randomly selected case notes in each place for every year, the median number of weeks in treatment each year, and the age median for each year for the patients represented in the case notes. There was no audit in Nuuk and Sisimiut in 2019 or Aasiaat and Qaqortoq in 2021.

Figure 2. Quarterly development in documentation for each treatment center with the 2020 guideline update marked with the dashed line.

Figure 3. Quarterly development in content for each treatment center with the 2020 guideline update marked with the dashed line.

Figure 4. Forest plot of results from a mixed linear regression illustrating the development of quality in documentation and content and how time, treatment center, and the 2020 intervention (a new treatment guideline) have affected the quality development.

Data availability statement

Data management and -storage were handled by the Open Patient Data Explorative Network. The dataset can be shared upon request.