Listen up, folks, we’ve got something big here with the PaRIS survey in Slovenia, okay? Huge!

Let me tell you, our healthcare systems, they’re not getting the real scoop from patients. Not enough info on what’s actually happening with them. But the PaRIS initiative by the OECD, that’s a game-changer. It’s all about measuring what’s going on with people who have chronic conditions, right in primary care. Tremendous stuff!

We did this study, a cross-sectional observational study, in Slovenia. Had a goal of getting 70 patients per practice, from 50 family medicine practices. That’s a lot of data, believe me. And we used this Slovenian version of the PaRIS questionnaires. Very smart, very efficient.

Now, the response rate, it was good, not the best, but good. We got 21 providers, that’s a 42% response rate, and 454 patients, a 50.7% response rate. The providers, they matched up well with the population, but the patients, not so much. We’ve got to work on that.

Everyone’s doing it online, which is fantastic. Providers finished in about 21 minutes, patients took a bit longer, 36 minutes on average. And the restarts, not too many, just shows you how user-friendly it is.

So, here’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to test the methodology, make sure it’s the best, the absolute best, before we roll out the main survey. We’ve got to tackle those legal issues early on, can’t have them slowing us down. And we need to make sure this thing is doable in practice, to get those participation rates up. It’s going to be great, folks, the best!