Book description:

Improve patient outcomes and meet MOC Part IV requirements with this real-world guide to implementing quality assessment and practice performance in emergency medicine

Assessment of Practice Performance in Emergency Medicine delivers a comprehensive, engagingly written review of our current methods for outcome assessment and clinical efficacy. The author, an experienced Emergency Department physician, also offers an insightful, thought-provoking call for a more aggressive, comprehensive, and local process.

Highlights of coverage include:

  • The Standard Peer Chart Review Process

  • Sequential Clinical Auditing

  • Assessment of Practice Performance

  • Implementing a Sequential Clinical Auditing Program

  • Case Studies in Peer Review

  • Examples of Clinical Audits

  • Examples and Templates for compliance with the APP PCPI Component

  • Integration of these elements in a holistic physician performance program

  • How this process can be initiated within your organization

Essential for every medical director, chairperson, administrator, or physician who is searching for methods to raise and/or sustain their own technical quality or that of their group, Assessment of Practice Performance in Emergency Medicine provides a critically important tool in today's medicine and healthcare market.

Anthony Ferroggiaro, MD, MHA, FACEP Kaiser Permanente Comprehensive Medical Center Marietta, Georgia

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