The Practice of Quality: Incorporating High-Yield Strategies into the Daily Reality of Medical Practice

Abstract

Today's physician is expected to incorporate clinical guidelines, increasing numbers of preventive services, and patient safety concerns into the realities of the day-to-day practice of medicine,regardless of specialty.

Application of Quality-Improvement Methods in a Community Practice: The Sandhills Pediatrics Asthma Initiative

“…Community practices are ideally situated to lead disease management efforts, but face barriers such as lack of time, poor reimbursement, lack of available staff, and inadequate information technology. 3 Although barriers do exist, effective methodologies have been used to improve care in busy practices, such as measuring performance and providing feedback, and using Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) 4 cycles to test improvement strategies. Plan includes initial problem identification, probable causes of the problem, potential solutions and data needed to evaluate them, and improvement goals.…”