Published: October 2015 Pages: 256
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
