Rheumatology for the health care professional

Health care quality and rheumatology: the role of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR).

In the context of undeniable evidence that health care can and must be improved, the ACR has committed to lead the effort to develop and implement quality measures designed to identify opportunities to improve sub-optimal care. In the process of creating and offering tools to measure and assess adherence to evidence-based care, the ACR seeks to be proactive in preparing its member physicians an...

[Clinical role for the professional nurse in rheumatology].

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the activity of the Nurses Clinic in the Rheumatology Unit of the San Juan de Alicante Hospital, Spain. METHODS After reaching a consensus, the nurses' functions were defined using a pre-defined scale (supported by medical objectives) and codes were assigned to perform future metrics. Afterwards, three roles were assigned to the rheumatology nurse practitioner: 1. Proced...

The health care revolution: a catalyst for professional evolution.

T he current revolution in rhe delivery of healrh care services in the United States has been marked by a moving away from a feefor-service health care payment sysrem to a managed care system of reimbursement. Historically, there has not been a direct link between those responsible for rhe financing of health care services and those who provide rhe services. Managed care integrates borh rhe con...

Making the case for personal professional monitoring in health care.

The use of databases to identify both good and bad (acceptable to identify good and failing performance’ [19]. The article in this issue demonstrates the applicability of such mechanisms and unacceptable) trends in the performance of simple and complex procedures in medicine has a long history and was to detect poor performance and the relative ease of their introduction [13]. advocated by such...

Account Perspective : Professional Standards In Health Care