Assessment of Practice Performance in Emergency Medicine: A Clinician's Guide to Quality Improvement
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Section 1. Quality Improvement-Why it Matters, How it is Done
Section 2. Chart Review--Department Specific
i. What chart review is and is not
ii. How it is done
iii. Case studies
iv. What chart review shows
Section 3. Clinical Auditing-Disease Specific
i. What clinical auditing is and is not
ii. How it is done
iii. Case Studies
iv. What clinical auditing shows
Section 4. Self-Assessment-Individual-Specific
i. What self-assessment is and is not
ii. How it is done
iii. Case Studies
iv. What Self-Assessment shows
Section 5. Putting it all Together--Mastering Quality Improvment
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.