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Quality Improvement

What This Section Has to Offer

Stay informed on quality improvement issues that are reshaping the health care industry, plus access education, tools and resources to prepare you for the future, simplify your life and help you “redesign” your medical practice for optimal patient care.

Why do QI?

In 2001, Institutes of Medicine published the landmark report Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century. The Chasm report described the current gaps in care and put forth six aims for improving America’s health care system, namely that health care should be safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable and patient-centered (STEEEP).

The study also recommended that a set of priority conditions be established to guide improvement efforts, the majority of which are treated by family physicians every day. As a family physician (or a member of the family medicine team), you are in a unique position to systematically improve the quality of medical care in our nation.
Quality Improvement (QI) Tools and Resources -- Access resources to guide your office toward better patient care. Find information to help you select and implement a QI project in your practice, research clinical information systems, stay updated on performance measurement and much more.
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