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Improve patient outcomes and meet MOC Part IV requirements with this real-world guide to implementing quality assessment and practice performance in emergency medicine
A Doody's Core Title for 2019!Assessment of Practice Performance in Emergency Medicine delivers a comprehensive, engagingly written review of our current methods for outcome assessment and clinical efficacy. The author, an experienced Emergency Department physician, also offers an insightful, thought-provoking call for a more aggressive, comprehensive, and local process.
Highlights of coverage include:
- The Standard Peer Chart Review Process
- Sequential Clinical Auditing
- Assessment of Practice Performance
- Implementing a Sequential Clinical Auditing Program
- Case Studies in Peer Review
- Examples of Clinical Audits
- Examples and Templates for compliance with the APP PCPI Component
- Integration of these elements in a holistic physician performance program
- How this process can be initiated within your organization
Essential for every medical director, chairperson, administrator, or physician who is searching for methods to raise and/or sustain their own technical quality or that of their group, Assessment of Practice Performance in Emergency Medicine provides a critically important tool in today's medicine and healthcare market.
List of contents
Section 1. Quality Improvement-Why it Matters, How it is DoneSection 2. Chart Review--Department Specifici. What chart review is and is notii. How it is doneiii. Case studiesiv. What chart review showsSection 3. Clinical Auditing-Disease Specifici. What clinical auditing is and is notii. How it is doneiii. Case Studiesiv. What clinical auditing showsSection 4. Self-Assessment-Individual-Specifici. What self-assessment is and is notii. How it is doneiii. Case Studiesiv. What Self-Assessment showsSection 5. Putting it all Together--Mastering Quality Improvment
About the author
Anthony Ferroggiaro, MD, MHA, FACEP
Kaiser Permanente Comprehensive Medical Center
Marietta, Georgia
