Best practices and benchmarking in healthcare : a practical journal for clinical and management application
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Best Pract Benchmarking Healthc · Nov 1997
ReviewClinical risk modification, quality, and patient safety: interrelationships, problems, and future potential.
Iatrogenic injury, in which patients are unintentionally injured by medical treatment, occurs in 4% of hospital admissions and causes considerable human suffering, financial losses, and waste of healthcare resources. This article discusses why existing quality initiatives have had little impact on iatrogenic injury and suggests an approach to clinical risk modification that may enhance the safety of medical treatment.
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Best Pract Benchmarking Healthc · Jul 1997
ReviewStandardized patients: a new method to assess the clinical skills of physicians.
A growing concern about the deterioration of the clinical skills of physicians has stimulated a renewed interest in the teaching and assessment of these skills. Standardized patients can be an effective means to teach or assess a physician's competence in clinical skills, such as history taking, physical examination, and patient-physician interaction skills. This article will describe this new method and delineate its emerging role in medical school education, residency training, and its potential role in continuing education and quality assurance for practicing physicians within a managed care setting.
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Best Pract Benchmarking Healthc · Jul 1997
ReviewBenchmarking for best practice in critical care medicine: can it realistically be done?
An individual program's viewpoint on the overall benchmarking process for critical care medicine and how this process can provide a conceptual understanding of how benchmarking can be beneficial.
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Best Pract Benchmarking Healthc · May 1997
ReviewComplaint-driven clinical policies and guidelines in emergency medicine.
Most clinical guidelines that have been promulgated are based on an established clinical diagnosis. Complaint driven, instead of diagnosis driven, clinical policies and guidelines are the norm in Emergency Medicine and present several unique challenges. This discussion is intended to help identify these issues and offer insights and practical solutions. An actual case study is also provided to illustrate the process.