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Category Archives: Quality Reporting
From Curricula to Crowdsourcing: Time for Trainees to Teach Value
By Andy Levy, MD and Christopher Moriates, MD Medical education’s efforts to incorporate the teaching of value-based care into formalized curricula have been remarkably few and fraught with challenges. More than 60 percent of med school grads feel they get inadequate … Continue reading
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Displaying the Price of Tests Makes Docs Think Twice
By Scott Harris During any shopping trip, an item found without a price tag seems to be followed inevitably by the old quip that “if there’s no price, it must be free.” The joke’s ubiquity might speak to an inherently … Continue reading
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In Case of Emergency, Consider Quality Improvement
By Scott Harris If quality improvement measures are good for the hospital or the doctor’s office, why not also for emergency medical services (EMS)? Reimbursing for a few more EMS options could prevent hospital admissions and increase care efficiency. So … Continue reading
Familiar Tools Can Fix Care for Sickest Seniors
By Scott Harris Though geriatrics is a relatively small segment of the physician population, given America’s aging rates it seems likely to grow. A new study found that well-coordinated geriatrics care can help bend the curve of hospital readmissions, and … Continue reading
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Montefiore Medical Center Study Shows Strength of Simulation Training
By Sarah Sonies Pilots-in-training don’t have immediate access to the cockpit of a Boeing 757. They are first placed in a simulator, navigating through bad weather, mechanical failures, and other adverse conditions to gain experience handling possible crises in a … Continue reading
New Years Resolution: More teachable moments please
By Nikita Joshi, MD Originally posted Friday, Jan. 4 2013 on Academic Life in Emergency Medicine “The worst thing about busy shifts is that I never learn anything.” My junior resident and I were contemplating the many difficulties of … Continue reading
Newer Physicians Spend More on Care
By Scott Harris A new study found that less-experienced physicians tend to provide more costly care per patient than their more veteran counterparts. An underlying cause of the difference, however, eluded researchers. The study, published in the November edition of … Continue reading
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Chart Review: A New Carnival for Academic Medicine Blogs
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Chart Review, our new monthly feature where the editors at Wing of Zock highlight our favorite blog posts from the previous month. We focus on blogs about academic medicine, whether from the perspective of … Continue reading
In His Words: Pronovost on CUSP
Peter Pronovost, MD, Ph.D., senior vice president for patient safety and quality at Johns Hopkins Medicine, was the lead on the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) initiative. CUSP reduced central line–associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) in intensive care units by 40 … Continue reading
Five Patient Handoff Resolutions for 2013
by Brandon H. Abbott, DO, MPH Since the restriction on resident duty work hours was passed by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) more than a year ago, I’ve found myself participating in patient handoffs more frequently in 2012 than ever before. … Continue reading →