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Technology & Quality: Malpractice Reform Only with Incentives

March 1, 2005 ‐ Leslie Proctor

The current medical malpractice environment does little if anything to encourage quality care and enhance safety, and tort reform, as espoused by government leaders, insurance company executives, and some physicians,…

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Simulation Learning: Advancing Medical Education and Patient Safety through Simulation Learning

March 1, 2005 ‐ Leslie Proctor

Medical education has traditionally relied on training with real patients in actual clinical settings. While hands-on, experiential learning is indispensable, medical educators are increasingly concerned about, and committed to, the safety of patients.

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Quality Metric – Proceedings from the Quality Colloquium: Implementing Evidence-Based Guidelines and Reporting Results Through a Quality Metric

March 1, 2005 ‐ Leslie Proctor

Although it is generally acknowledged that evidence-based medicine (EBM) reflects expert consensus about the standard of care in specific disease processes, implementing guidelines that incorporate EBM meets with a great deal of resistance.

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The Patient in Patient Safety

March 1, 2005 ‐ Leslie Proctor

Five years after the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued its report To Err Is Human (1999) with its all-too-familiar statistics of medical errors in hospitals, little has changed.

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Error Reduction – Stop The Noise: Reduce Errors by Creating a Quieter Hospital Environment

March 1, 2005 ‐ Leslie Proctor

In the typical hospital environment, sounds of beepers, alarms, machines, telephones, and voices are considered “usual and customary” — normal to those who work there and those who watch the television show “ER.”

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MEDDIC-MS: MEDDICS-MS MONITORING MEASURES

March 1, 2005 ‐ Leslie Proctor

Ambulatory care of diabetes (HbA1c and lipid profile rates)…

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MEDDIC-MS: Blood lead toxicity screening. Targeted performance improvement measure

March 1, 2005 ‐ Leslie Proctor

Children in Medicaid are considered to be at risk for exposure to sources of lead poisioning in their living environment.

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MEDDIC-MS: Key Words & Acronyms

March 1, 2005 ‐ Leslie Proctor

AFDC: Aid to Families with Dependent Children…

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MEDDIC-MS: Wisconsin’s New Quality Performance Measure System for Medicaid Managed Care

March 1, 2005 ‐ Leslie Proctor

MEDDIC-MS is an automated, rapid-cycle managed care quality performance measure system for Wisconsin’s Medicaid/BadgerCare HMO program.

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View From the Hill – 2005: Another Key Year to Promote Quality Healthcare

March 1, 2005 ‐ Leslie Proctor

As the new calendar year started, the 109th Congress came roaring into town, and President Bush was inaugurated into office for a second term. Then for the second time ever, the president promoted improving healthcare in his 2005 State of the Union address to the U.S. Congress.

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