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Does Insurance oversight of clinical practice improve either quality of care, or patient outcomes?
When outside oversight, based solely on published guidelines, interferes with clinical care there are potentially multiple adverse outcomes, including physician and patient frustration, waste of time and interference with delivery of optimal care. There should be ways for insurers to use their databases to mitigate inefficient and intrusive oversight. Continue reading →
What is Evidence Based Medicine?
One definition would be: Delivery of Medical Care based on results of best available evidence. This usually means finding or relying upon data, some of which will be from outside one’s immediate memory to help answer a clinical question. EBM … Continue reading →
Registry Participation will help Develop Alignment and Improve Quality
Many hospitals and hospital systems are trying to ensure that they are satisfying quality metrics to help with accreditation, and to confirm that they are satisfying their mission and providing community benefit. Superior performance in achieving clinical quality may allow … Continue reading →
Posted in Competition, CV, effectiveness/efficacy, Quality, treatment options
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Tagged data, quality, registry
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What is “CE Research/Analysis”? Who should be responsible for it’s implementation?
CE research/analysis is clearly one technique to help gain insight into relative efficacy of several treatments for a specific clinical condition. If the private sector (industry, professional organizations) won’t do it in an unbiased manner, then perhaps an agency such as AHRQ should have our support, counsel and thought. Continue reading →
Posted in effectiveness/efficacy, Policy, treatment options
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Tagged comparative effectiveness, Public Policy, uncertainty
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