Search results for "Quality Improvement"
Is your staff prepared to respond to a stroke?
Kathy Eiler, a Philadelphia practice manager and faculty member on ACP quality improvement programs.
May 2008
Practice Tips: Connecting the dots—why benchmarking matters
Efficient operations affect a practice's quality of care and economic well-being. ... Practicing continuous quality improvement is a mindset that affects all aspects of care and management.
April 2014
Designing a better hospital
His other clinical interests include quality improvement, hospital safety, hospital utilization, and the use of technology in health care.
October 2019
The best self-management is ‘specific, do-able and realistic’
Guzek, PHA's chair of quality improvement. But it's having the actual profile in hand, he added, that makes the difference to patients in their self-management. ... Guzek said. The staff affixes stars beside improvement areas on the profile, which goes
April 2008
QD: News Every Day--9 performance measures for heart failure expand use of beta-blockers to inpatient care, among other recommendations
Updates to heart failure performance measures include an expanded use for beta blockers and new quality metrics for internal quality improvement, reports the American College of Cardiology Foundation. ... While six of the measures are appropriate for
October 2019
Staffing can make or break a small practice
year quality improvement project. ... They offered individual recommendations and resources for improvement, then returned to the practices a year later to see how they did.
January 2008
How to fix EMRs
decision support (reminders about indicated services, drug-drug interactions, embedded care pathways, access to supporting clinical evidence); the ability to aggregate information for quality improvement purposes, and more.
October 2019
Nominees named for College Officer and Regent positions
Strengths, based on training and experience: Quality improvement, performance assessment and management, public policy, and medical education.
November 2010
Nominees named for ACP Officers and Regent positions
Strengths, based on training and experience: healthcare policy, healthcare quality, performance improvement. ... Strengths, based on training and experience: Quality improvement, performance assessment and management, public policy, and medical education.
November 2008
In Haiti, flawed health care infrastructure complicates rebuilding
Quality improvement has been a buzzword in medicine for over a decade, yet physicians interested in learning about this important area of the field have usually had to do so on ... Aimed mainly at mid-career professionals looking to improve their quality
May 2010