Quality circles for quality improvement in primary health care: Their origins, spread, effectiveness and lacunae– A scoping review

• Adrian Rohrbasser ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: adrian.rohrbasser@kellogg.ox.ac.uk

  Affiliations Department of Continuing Education University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6718-6821

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• Janet Harris ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Janet Harris, Sharon Mickan, Kali Tal, Geoff Wong

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Sheffield School of Health & Related Research, Sheffield, United Kingdom

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• Sharon Mickan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Janet Harris, Sharon Mickan, Kali Tal, Geoff Wong

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation The Gold Coast Health, Griffith University, Southport, Australia

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• Kali Tal ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Janet Harris, Sharon Mickan, Kali Tal, Geoff Wong

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Geoff Wong

  Contributed equally to this work with: Janet Harris, Sharon Mickan, Kali Tal, Geoff Wong

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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