MP32: Using physician practice reports and feedback sessions to reduce low value care in bronchiolitis

: examining l2 teachers’ corrective feedback types in relation to learners’ uptake, proficiency levels, and context types

abstract this study investigates the teachers’ correction of students’ spoken errors of linguistic forms in efl classes, aiming at (a) examining the relationship between the learners’ proficiency level and the provision of corrective feedback types, (b) exploring the extent to which teachers’ use of different corrective feedback types is related to the immediate types of context in which err...

A Multicenter Collaborative to Reduce Unnecessary Care in Inpatient Bronchiolitis.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Evidence-based Guidelines for acute viral bronchiolitis recommend primarily supportive care, but unnecessary care remains well documented. Published quality improvement work has been accomplished in children's hospitals, but little broad dissemination has been reported outside of those settings. We sought to use a voluntary collaborative strategy to disseminate best pra...

Confidential Physician Feedback Reports: Designing for Optimal Impact on Performance

Teaching statistics to medical undergraduates using interactive and participatory sessions

Introduction: In India, medical undergraduates think that statistics is difficultto understand. Often, it is taught just before final assessment examinationusing didactic lectures, with little use of medical examples and less focus onapplication. Hence, we prepared interactive, participatory sessions for teachingbiostatistics to medical undergraduate.Methods: The sessions were delivered by a fa...

Primary care practice coordination versus physician continuity.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study assesses the influence of primary care continuity--both clinician and system--on patient outcomes. We consider the presumed benefits of physician continuity and practice coordination within a multi-specialty group. METHODS The practices of 194 family physicians and general internists caring for 320000 adult members of a health maintenance organization were...