CITATION

Ferroggiaro, Anthony. Assessment of Practice Performance in Emergency Medicine: A Clinician's Guide to Quality Improvement. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2015.

Assessment of Practice Performance in Emergency Medicine: A Clinician's Guide to Quality Improvement

Published:  October 2015 Pages: 256

eISBN: 9780071837774 | ISBN: 9780071836593
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1 The Assumption of Clinical Quality
  • Chapter 2 Peer Chart Review
  • Hospital Peer Review
  • Common Departmental Structure and Process
  • The Art of the Peer Reviewer
  • Case Studies in Peer Review
  • Example of Response Letter from Colleague Referral
  • Summary of Action Items for Process Improvement from a Retrospective Chart Review
  • Transition-The Effectiveness of Peer Review
  • Chapter 3 Sequential Clinical Auditing
  • Introduction
  • What Sequential Clinical Auditing Is Not
  • The Operational Impact of Auditing
  • Michael Porter and Sequential Clinical Auditing: A Step in the Right Direction
  • Fundamentals of Clinical Auditing
  • Planning an Audit (How to Choose a Topic)
  • Developing a Comprehensive Audit Plan
  • Doing an Audit
  • Publishing, Politics, and Practice Change
  • The Observed Patterns of Practice
  • Audit Cycle Frequency as Pertaining to Physician Technical Decay
  • Comment on Knowledge Translation, CME, and Sequential Clinical Auditing
  • A Consideration of Sampling Size
  • Examples of Clinical Audits
  • Chapter 4 Assessment of Practice Performance
  • 4A: The ABEM APP Patient Care Practice Improvement Requirement
  • 4B: The ABEM APP Communication/Professionalism Requirement
  • Chapter 5 Implementing a Sequential Clinical Auditing Program
  • Chapter 6 Closure and Continuance
  • Index