Engaging Physicians to Improve Quality

Engaging physicians to improve quality.

Saskatchewan’s Health Quality Council (HQC) was launched in 2003 with a mandate to not only measure and report on healthcare but also work with a range of partners to improve the province’s health system. In late 2007, HQC’s board decided it was time for Saskatchewan to reinvent its healthcare system, using the highestperforming systems in the world as its model. And in 2008, HQC launched Accel...

Engaging patients to improve healthcare quality.

M any health services organizations are seeking – and finding – ways to successfully engage patients in all areas of healthcare services, from planning to delivery to evaluation. Including patients in discussions and decisions about their own healthcare may seem like a good and obvious thing to do. However, assessing the success of this approach is complicated as there is little empirical evide...

Engaging Physicians In Efforts To Improve Patient Safety and Clinical Quality By

Today health care in the United States is too often unaffordable, unsafe, impersonal, uncoordinated, and wasteful. There is considerable overuse, under use, or misuse of health care resources. As a result there is an increasing emphasis on demands for improvements in patient safety, the consistent application of evidence-based medical practice, initiatives to reduce variation, requirements for ...

Independent physicians collaborate to improve quality.

Engaging medical librarians to improve the quality of review articles.

Review articles published in JAMA summarize various aspectsofmedicalpracticeandarewrittenbyknownauthorities.Anexpert’sopinionabouta topichasvalue,but often more can be learned by that expert’s assessment ofall thepertinent literature.Whenreading individual research articles, readers couldmiss subtle features of the studies that are more apparent to an expert clinicianresearcher. Readers benefit...