Assessment of Practice Performance in Emergency Medicine: A Clinician's Guide to Quality Improvement

by Ferroggiaro, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9780071836593
• ISBN10: 0071836594
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-10-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education / Medical

Summary

Improve patient outcomes and meet MOC Part IV requirements with this real-world guide to implementing quality assessment and practice performance in emergency medicine

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.

Table of Contents

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