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How do I improve the quality of care delivered to my patients? How can I implement effective and innovative quality improvement programs in my practice? What options are available to efficiently collect data as an integral first step towards measuring my practice’s performance? What quality measures are available? Providing quality care is an essential skill needed to ensure that your practice is successful. This section of Practice Management Online provides pediatricians with theoretical and practical content as well as applicable tools that can be incorporated into the practice. Examples of topics included are: quality improvement basics, evidence-based medicine, improving and measuring quality in the pediatric practice, patient safety, and maintenance of certification for pediatricians.
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Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
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| 2. | AAP's Safer Health Care for Kids (2009)
American Academy of Pediatrics
The Safer Health Care for Kids program is designed for physicians, allied health professionals, administrators, parents, and caregivers and features a new Web-based resource center for pediatric patient safety information and strategies. |
| 4. | Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Category II Codes: Pay-for-Performance Measures (2009)
American Academy of Pediatrics
Pay-for-performance programs incentivize clinicians, using evidence-based medicine to provide preventive services that should improve clinical outcomes and enhance patient safety and satisfaction. Pay-for-performance programs reward clinicians based on performance of quality and efficiency measures so that desired patient management practices occur through changed physician behavior. CPT contains a set of Category II tracking codes that can be used to report performance measurement. This brochure reflects the use of these codes and how they relate to pay for performance.
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| 5. | EQIPP Can Help Ensure Quality Care for Your Patients (2009)
American Academy of Pediatrics
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is committed to educating and assisting pediatricians to ensure that they provide quality care to thier patients and are consistenlty improving the care that they provide. One tool developed by the AAP to assist physicians in achieving these goals is eQIPP, a unique online learning program that teaches the principles and concepts of quality improvement in health care. |
| 6. | Frequently Asked Questions About the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (2009)
American Academy of Pediatrics
Pediatricians have many questions about the impact of the incentives available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) to support the adoption of health information technology. While many of the details will need to be determined through the regulatory process, AAP staff has developed FAQs to provide answers to some of the most common questions.
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| 7. | Maintenance of Certification (2009)
American Academy of Pediatrics
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has developed tools for learning and evaluating your practice to help you on your pathway to understanding and meeting the components of Maintenance of Certification (MOC)-Pediatrics.
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| 8. | Maintenance of Certification Part 4 (2009)
American Academy of Pediatrics
This article provides an overview of the four parts of the Maintenance of Certification (MOC) and the programs offered by the AAP that offer the potential for ABP-approved MOC Part 4 activities.
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| 12. | Online CME (2008)
Andy Spooner, MD, FAAP
This article features an overview of the basic models of Web-based continuing medical education (CME) and a listing of online CME opportunities.
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| 13. | Quality Improvement Innovation Network (2008)
American Academy of Pediatrics
The Quality Improvement Innovation Network (QuIIN) is a network of practicing pediatricians and their staff who are committed to testing tools, measures, and strategies using quality improvement methods to improve care for children. Visit this webpage for information on how to join QuIIN, participate in a QuIIN project, or propose a project to QuIIN. |
| 14. | Quality Improvement Tools for Physicians (2008)
Ramesh Sachdeva, MD, PhD, JD, FAAP
Physicians are being increasingly expected to participate in quality improvement endeavors. However, physicians may not have not been exposed to quality improvement tools and methodologies as part of the traditional curriculum in medical schools and residencies. Quality improvement is a unique science. This article provides a framework of models for quality improvement that can be used by physicians.
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| 15. | Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home (2007)
American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), American College of Physicians (ACP), and American Osteopathic Association (AOA)
In March 2007, a consensus statement on medical home principles was developed and jointly endorsed by ACP, AAFP, AOA, and AAP. Understanding the unique needs of children and families, the Academy wishes to highlight certain critical pediatric medical home principles: family-centered partnership, community- based system, transitions and value. |
| 18. | Steering Committee on Quality Improvement Management (SCOQIM) (2009)
American Academy of Pediatrics
The Steering Committee on Quality Improvement and Management (SCOQIM) was established in 2001 in response to the increasing national emphasis on quality in health care and the AAP identification of QI as a top priority. SCOQIM offers a more integrated voice for quality and enables the AAP to best support its members in providing the highest quality clinical care for children.
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| 19. | AAP Health Information Technology Resources (2008)
American Academy of Pediatrics
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has several resources available to help you implement health information technology in your practice. This article provides you with an overview. |
| 20. | Clinical Practice Guidelines (2008)
American Academy of Pediatrics
Information about AAP clinical practice guidelines, including quick links to current guidelines. |
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