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Health Reform and the Medical HomeMarch 14, 2009
“The better the primary care, the greater the cost savings, the better the health outcomes, and the greater the reduction in health and health care disparities.” get Valtrex 1 Australia, through the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission, is seeking the best way to deliver health services into the future. In the collaborative program, practices […] |
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Diabetes in the Big AppleMarch 12, 2009
New York has 500,000 diagnosed people with diabetes, and is considered pro-active in diabetes care. How are they going? Not so well, according to a recent study. 90% are not meeting their targets for HbA1C, Cholesterol and Blood Pressure. order Indocin …many of New York City’s medical institutions are failing to meet nationally recognized standards […] |
Patient–Doctor Connectedness and the Quality of Primary CareMarch 1, 2009
buy cytotec Nexium online purchase Lasix Common sense suggests that the quality of medical care would be better when a doctor knows a patient well and the patient sees the same doctor over time than when a patient sees several doctors who do not know the patient well. However, good studies are lacking to prove […]
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‘Translate’ diabetes evidence into practiceFebruary 26, 2009
The Collaborative program is a ‘complex intervention’ that has been shown to be effective. Which parts are the most important? The recent TRANSLATE trial tested the effectiveness of a ‘multi-component organisational intervention’ for diabetes patients in primary care practices. All practices in the study were provided with a report of their baseline measures and were […]
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The Institute of Healthcare ImprovementFebruary 1, 2009
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI Retin-A online ) is a champion of practice improvement. The IHI developed the original ‘breakthrough collaborative’ model from which the APCC has been developed. About 10,000 delegates (including Dale Ford) attended the recent 20th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care in Nashville. How was it, Dale? […]
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Putting Guidelines into PracticeFebruary 1, 2009
How can we bridge the ‘chasm’ between what the evidence tells us we should achieve in chronic disease, and what we manage to achieve in practice? (Cf NICS Gap Report) This is perhaps the key question that we are collaborating to answer. Ralph Audehm has directed us to a few recent articles that aim to […] |
Cool Tools – Doctors Control PanelJanuary 11, 2009
This may be just the thing you’re looking for! Do you wish it was easier to provide proactive care? Do you get frustrated by the lack of features in your clinical software? “Yes”, said Anton Knieriemen (Vic Collabs, current wave) to these questions. And then he decided to fix the flaming thing. He wrote a […]
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Better by Atul GawandeDecember 15, 2008
“What does it take to be good at something in which failure is so easy, so effortless?” Lasix online This is the question posed by Atul Gawande in his latest book, “Better – a surgeon’s notes on performance”. It may make an excellent gift for your fellow collaborators! Atul is a Boston surgeon, a professor […] |
Did Not Attend – Idea of the WeekNovember 22, 2008
Are DNAs a problem in your practice? Or do you depend on them to get through your day? Appointments are gold cheap cialis super active , and where you have more demand than capacity it is very wasteful when a gap arises that would have been gleefully ‘claimed’ by many other customers. The longer the […] |
