Michael Stuart MD    President &    Medical Director    Delfini Group    mstuart@delfini.org

Dolphins to the rescue! If you are involved in medical decision-making, click here to read important facts you might not know about why an evidence-based practice approach to clinical quality improvement might help you and why you might want to know about us. (And click here to read Important: Report on EBM Quiz Failures.) We can help you. We are leaders in evidence- and value-based clinical improvement methods and experts in evidence-based medicine and related disciplines, with proven methods that are rigorous, yet simplified — and that work. And despite the rigorous demands of science, we are warm, flexible, helpful and fun. We provide help for organizations, leaders, committees such as pharmacy & therapeutics and medical technology assessment, quality teams and other work groups, individual physicians, pharmacists, nurses, other health care professionals, scientists, guideline developers, content developers, most importantly patients and more...you will find much free on our website...

Sheri Ann Strite               Principal &               Managing Partner               Delfini Group               sstrite@delfini.org

Delfini SERVICES
We offer a wide range of supportive services with the ultimate goal of increasing health care organizations’ and clinicians’ abilities to provide high quality, evidence-based care and to improve medical decision-making for organizations, leaders, teams, clinicians and patients. We give you commentaries and other help for free such as self-learning modules, reading recommendations and a simplified glossary. We offer support to help you help patients make health care decisions based on their own values and preferences by providing ways to help them better understand the implications of science and the various choices available to them.

We can help your organization be primed and structured for clinical care quality. We evaluate the quality systems of your health care organization and consult on your clinical improvement initiatives, including performance measurement.

Our services include a broad range of clinical improvement activities including –

• Training programs such as critical appraisal of the medical literature training to help you successfully evaluate the medical literature as well as other medical education resource offerings for clinical quality improvement, medical decision-making, measurement and more;
• Facilitating and training in clinical practice guideline development and clinical quality improvement projects;
• Clinical improvement facilitation and committee assistance such as for quality improvement teams, pharmacy & therapeutics committees and medical technology assessment committees and their projects; and,
• Conducting scientific reviews for many purposes such as clinical guidelines, qualitative systematic reviews, monographs, medical technology assessments and more.

We offer help in medical decision-making methods including creating decision-support materials and improved doctor and patient communications (see our GLIDE physician patient communications tool which was a favorite of John Coombs MD of the University of Washington and advanced-program Tulsa attendees).

Our consultations are wide-ranging, but always with an eye first to the evidence, taking into considerations other factors in health care decision-making. Read here if you haven't already to see why this is our focus.

Delfini IS UNIQUE
Delfini is unique in the world of EBM and clinical quality improvement. We practice applied evidence-based medicine, and we are applauded for our simplified methods, confidence-building experiences and practical tools. Many of our tools and resources are freely available on our website.

WE HELP OTHERS BE SUCCESSFUL — WE CAN HELP YOU BE SUCCESSFUL
We have accolades for our work and evidence of our effectiveness. We have numerous testimonials from professors and other academicians, health care leaders including those involved in performance measurement, pharmacy & therapeutics and medical technology assessment committees, quality improvement teams, physicians, pharmacists, nurses, residents, students, guideline developers, content developers, employers, judges and many others.

Our training programs are popular. We make hard concepts and process steps easy to understand, and we make learning them entertaining. The proof is in our testimonials and evaluation scores which average 4.8 out of 5.0. Our website has been praised as a useful source for clinical improvement information which we add to regularly.

Delfini About Our Work

• Who We Can Help
• Areas We Provide Help In
• Our Capabilities
• Services
• Testimonials
• About Us
• Contact Us

Resources at —

• Resources
• medicalleaders.org
• pharmacyleaders.org

AN INTRODUCTION TO OUR WEBSITE (use of which implies an agreement to our Notices)
Health care seems like a shipwreck at times. Yet there are islands of hopefulness. Much of the territory is uncharted; yet there is potential for relief and direction. We want to provide islands of hopefulness to you. Our goal is to provide you with help to foster clinical quality care efforts. See below for some key links to information of import to you.

Photo courtesy of Bat Shunatona, MD
OMNI Medical Group, Tulsa OK
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The Delfini Mission
Our mission is to improve health care quality and use of resources by assisting medical leaders, health care professionals and others interested in and affected by health care decisions by —

• Bringing science into medical practice in an easy-to-understand way.
• Using simplified methods to help navigate the complexities of such areas as evidence-based medicine, clinical improvement and other topics.
• Building competencies and confidence in improving medical care through our consultations, training programs and tools.
• Providing inspiration to others to improve medical care and help bring about needed change.

What People Are Saying
"...impressive.... terrific conference... impressive tools... already using in real life... valuable, fun, memorable... made hard stuff easy to understand... helped us change... real success... improved patient care... invaluable..."

Delfini average training program scores are 4.8 out of 5.0

"... gifted facilitators and passionate educators... have rarely encountered presenters so well-prepared and well-versed in their subject matter... both are engaging, up-beat and empowering... extremely generous with their knowledge and expertise..."

See all our Testimonials.

Questions for Sheri & Mike? Write delfini@delfini.org

Areas We Provide Help In

• Help for organizations to position for quality
• Evidence-based practice such as critical appraisal of the medical literature to help you with medical literature evaluation
• Evidence-based medicine
• Scientific reviews
• Evidence synthesis
• Clinical recommendations
• Mdical education resources
• Clinical quality improvement
• Medical decision-making
• Health care quality
• Patient-centered care
• Physician/patient communications
• Creating decision support
• Committee work such as pharmacy and therapeutics & medical technology assessment including tips for monograph development
• Leadership help
• Clinical practice guideline development and facilitation
• Clinical improvement project facilitation
• Project selection
• Cost analysis evaluation
• Implementation
• Measurement
• Performance measurement
• Meeting management
• more...

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