Integrating Quality Improvement Into Continuing Medical Education Activities Within a Community Hospital System
| Autor: | Arnold R. Eiser, Jean Yodis Miller, William B. McNamee |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
Patient Care Team
Quality management business.industry Process (engineering) Health Policy Cardiology Specialty Quality care Hospitals Community Medical Oncology Quality Improvement Community hospital Patient safety Continuing medical education Nursing Multidisciplinary approach Teaching Rounds Humans Medicine Education Medical Continuing business |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Medical Quality. 28:238-242 |
| ISSN: | 1555-824X 1062-8606 |
| Popis: | The integration of the Mercy Health System's quality improvement (QI) and continuing medical educational (CME) activities is described. With the implementation of computerized medical data, the opportunities for QI-focused CME are growing. The authors reviewed their regularly scheduled series and special CME programs to assess their impact on quality care processes. Clinical improvements were affected by combining national guidelines and advancements with local clinical data and interactions with physicians within interdisciplinary as well as specialty conferences. Case-based, multidisciplinary conferences lent themselves to this process to a greater extent than didactic conferences. The latter also could lead to QI when the topics were focused on specific quality initiatives that often are part of a national QI initiative. Although the authors consider these efforts to be at an intermediate stage of development, they have observed several QI/patient safety process improvements. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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