- ►annals.org [PDF] BE Landon, SLT Normand - Annals of Internal Medicine, 2008 - Am Coll Physicians Great strides have been made in the creation of programs aimed at improving the
safety and quality of health care in the United States, including measurement
systems and corresponding standards in the ambulatory setting that are used ... Cited by 7 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
TP Miller, TA Brennan, A Milstein - Health Affairs, 2009 - healthaff.highwire.org The lack of good information on providers' performance is an impediment to
improving the affordability and quality of health care. Knowing that certain
hospitals or physicians produce more effective and efficient care would ... Related articles - All 3 versions
D Wolfson, E Bernabeo, B Leas, S Sofaer, G … - BMC Family Practice, 2009 - biomedcentral.com Physicians in small to moderate primary care practices in the United States (US)
(<25 physicians) face unique challenges in implementing quality improvement (QI)
initiatives, including limited resources, small staffs, and inadequate ... Related articles - Cached - All 6 versions
DM Elston, E Stratman, H Johnson-Jahangir … - Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 2009 - Elsevier The quality movement in medicine has prompted a shift from a “name, shame,
blame” approach to medical errors to one in which each error is regarded as an
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N Guinn, LG Moore - Family Practice Management, 2008 - ks.aafp.org For the most part, the disease guidelines and the data measures are based on the
best of medical evidence and expert opinion. But they are also based on the
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MM Davis, JH Hibbard, A Milstein - Issue brief (Center for Studying Health System Change …, 2007 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Health plans increasingly use physician performance ratings, but some physicians
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livelihoods. Absent from the debate thus far are consumer views about how ... Cited by 1 - Related articles
J Hart, G Sweeney - Journal for healthcare quality: official publication of … - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Patient safety indicators (PSIs) can be a valuable reporting tool to incorporate
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AA Patel, C Glaiberman, DA Gould - Anesthesiology Clinics, 2007 - Elsevier The aviation industry realized the potential of simulation for training many
decades ago and has harnessed its potential. In the past few decades, medicine
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JH Wasson, NJ Baker - The Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 2009 - journals.lww.com The Institute for Healthcare Improvement has long supported the use of balanced
measures to assess improvement among patients at both the individual and the
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