Search results for "Quality Improvement"
Change for the future and a look at the past
I hope the patient-centered medical home and true payment reform will value what internal medicine specialists and subspecialists do and build continuous quality improvement into the practice.
October 2010
Factor frailty into preop assessment
Dr. Beliveau said that she uses the NSQIP (National Surgical Quality Improvement Program) Surgical Risk Calculator to determine surgical risk. ... Dr. Beliveau said that more research is also needed on a possible association between frailty and discharge
July 2018
Patients, generalists and subspecialists all gain from PCMH
to promote continuous quality improvement, and a visit-based fee-for-service payment to incentivize physicians to see patients in the office when appropriate. ... better HIT to efficiently coordinate all sources of the patient's care within the community
September 2008
The discharge paperwork makeover
His other clinical interests include quality improvement, hospital safety, hospital utilization, and the use of technology in health care.
August 2020
Strength in numbers: building influence through coalitions
ACP also works with several groups and coalitions and has a leading role improving health quality, health information and performance measurement. ... We are also leading efforts to identify appropriate and scientifically valid quality improvement
February 2009
Congress needs to rewrite script for fixing payment system
policies that reduce health care disparities,. positive incentives for continuous and measurable quality improvement, and. ... needs to improve to provide all residents with affordable, efficient and high quality care.
January 2008
Medication reconciliation demands a 'no ifs, ands or buts' list
Doctors, pharmacists and administrators have to work closely together to drive this quality improvement. ... His other clinical interests include quality improvement, hospital safety, hospital utilization, and the use of technology in health care.
August 2020
10 eyes for looking at disease
imaging modalities, diagnostic reasoning, medical informatics, new medical education modalities, pre-code/code management, palliative care, patient-physician communication, quality improvement, and quantitative biomedical imaging.
August 2020
Observation versus inpatient is a different world for today's medical residents
His other clinical interests include quality improvement, hospital safety, hospital utilization, and the use of technology in health care.
August 2020
QD: News Every Day--Antimicrobial stewardship having some impact at hospitals
The quality of care was not adversely affected, authors noted. But, less than a third of hospitals fully comply with IDSA/SHEA Antimicrobial Stewardship guidelines, according to a University of
August 2020