Patient Partnerships in Primary Care

March 31, 2010
Patient Partnerships in Primary Care

We know that the ‘real work’ in chronic disease management is done by the patient themselves.How can we improve the most important partnership in health? This article profiles the ‘Patients as Partners’ agenda in British Columbia.

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The Checklist Manifesto – How to Get Things Right

March 12, 2010

Checklists have been routinely used to improve safety in aviation since 1937.
The building industry uses checklists to ensure major projects run to schedule and are safe.
So why don’t we use checklists more in medicine?
This is the question asked by the American surgeon and columnist, Atul Gawande, author of ‘Better’, (previously reviewed)
A number of studies have [...]

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Proactive Office Encounters

March 12, 2010

How my Orthopaedic Surgeon saved me from Bowel Cancer
Bob W will tell you that his life was saved from bowel cancer by his doctor. The surprising thing in Bob’s story is that he is referring to his orthopaedic surgeon!
Bob is one of 8.6 million people cared for by Kaiser Permanente, a US health care organisation [...]

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IHI Clinical Office Practice Forum 2010

March 7, 2010
IHI Clinical Office Practice Forum 2010

Each year the Institute of Healthcare Improvement hold a major forum on Improving Clinical Office Practice.
This year ‘Improving Patient Care in the Office Practice and the Community’ is the 11th such forum and will be held in Washington.
I’m currently posting from AA76 LA to Washington Dulles, so will keep ‘practice improvement’ informed of any new [...]

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Patient Held Medical Records and the Care Calendar

March 7, 2010
Patient Held Medical Records and the Care Calendar

Many practices have had success with Patient Held Medical Records.
This can be used as the key component of a GP Management Plan and Team Care Arrangement. It can act as a communication tool between all providers involved in a patient’s care – are they all ‘on the same page’?.
It can also contain information for [...]

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