Advance care planning conversations in primary care: a quality improvement project using the Serious Illness Care Program

Advance care planning in primary care.

Primary Health Care Quality Improvement Patterns: A Systematic Review Study

Background and Aim: Along with the expansion of health systems, the importance of primary health care as the basis of an efficient health system is more evident and the quality of the provided services at this level becomes more important. In this way, the present study attempts to collect patterns used to improve the quality of primary health care. Materials and Methods: The present study is ...

Improving primary care in Australia through the Australian Primary Care Collaboratives Program: a quality improvement report.

PROBLEM Effective and affordable health systems have good primary care. Access, equity, care of chronic conditions and quality are key priorities in primary care in Australia. DESIGN A large-scale quality improvement collaborative addressing diabetes, coronary heart disease (CHD), access, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), patient self-management, Aboriginal health and diabetes pre...

Barriers to advance care planning in primary care.

to assess whether introducing beta-blockade immediately prior to surgery and continuing it for 30 days reduced the risk of cardiac events in patients at risk of, or with, coronary artery disease, vascular disease, previous stroke, etc. In POISE, about 60% of patients had a history of hypertension, but there are no data on the quality of blood pressure control or the presence or absence of eleva...

Quality Improvement in a Primary Care Case Management Program

In this article we describe and evaluate quality monitoring and improvement activities conducted by Massachusetts Medicaid for its primary care case management program, the primary care clinician plan (PCC). Emulating managed care organization (MCO) practices, the State uses claims to analyze and report service delivery rates on the practice level and then works directly with individual medical...