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Session: Quality Improvement in Cardiac Care, Cancer, Gout, and Long-Term Care
5127.0: Wednesday, November 08, 2006: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Oral
Quality Improvement in Cardiac Care, Cancer, Gout, and Long-Term Care
Learning Objectives: 1. Appreciate the value of analyzing patient complaints qualitatively; 2. Describe the variable adherence to quality indicators for gout care in veterans; 3. Recognize the difference between disparities in care within an institution versus disparities in care among institutions; 4. Identify the four types of quality indicators that can be used to investigate quality of care in prostate cancer patients: structural resources, pre-therapy disease severity assessment, pre-therapy functional assessment and counseling; 5. Describe quality improvement approach on prevention of pressure ulcers.
Presider(s):Mona Sarfaty, MD
12:30 PMContent analysis of patient complaints
Theresa Montini, MSW, PhD, Alice Noble, JD, MPH, Henry Thomas Stelfox, MD, PhD
12:45 PMPoor Adherence to Quality of Care Indicators for Treatment of Patients with Gout  [ Recorded presentation ]
Jasvinder A. Singh, MBBS, MPH, James Hodges, PhD, David B. Nelson, PhD, Joanne Thomas, MS
1:00 PMExpecting Success: Findings from a hospital collaborative to reduce disparities in cardiac care using quality improvement initiatives  [ Recorded presentation ]
Marcia J. Wilson, MBA, Bruce Siegel, MD, MPH
1:15 PMExpectant Management Among Early-Stage Prostate Cancer Patients: The American College of Surgeons Special Study  [ Recorded presentation ]
Jamie Ritchey, MPH, David Miller, MD, MPH, Benjamin Spencer, MD, MPH, Andrew Stewart, MA, Mark S. Litwin, MD, MPH, John T. Wei, MD, MS
1:30 PMBest practice guidelines: Maintenance of skin integrity for the vulnerable population within a large public health care system  [ Recorded presentation ]
Consuelo U. Dungca, EdD, RN, Juliet G. Gaengan, RN, MSA
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Medical Care
Endorsed by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Vietnam Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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