Why You May Want to Know About Delfini
We are practitioners, facilitators and trainers in applied evidence- and value-based health care quality improvements and methods, and our work is well-regarded as providing effective help to achieve successful outcomes.  We specialize in health care quality improvement through evidence-based practice and value-based approaches to inform medical decision-making. We provide services and, as a public service, we also make many tools and resources freely available online.

• "Applied" EBM
  We have considerable real-world and real-tested experience, we take a practical and an efficient approach
• Quality Products
  Our products are rigorous, transparent and useful to users ranging from clinicians to patients
• Making Evidence-based Improvements Easily Doable
  Our tool-based training and simplified approaches make evidence-based health care quality improvement work comprehensible and readily doable
• Immediate Gains Without Undue Pain
  We make learning entertaining and focus on creating success — we help people realize success rapidly
• Filling a Critical & Unmet Need
  Most people are unaware just how big the problems are with potentially misleading science and most health care information sources. We have the "evidence-on-the-evidence" and details on the importance of an evidence-based approach (including information on how this is currently falling short in most ways)
• Effective
  We have evidence of our effectiveness — we can help you and your patients
• Free Resources & Tools
  We are public-service minded and passionate about helping others and so we make many resources freely available on our website including much of our own work including our well-received practical, popular and useful EBM tools. Download our 1-page critical appraisal checklist here. Many more tools are available at our Resources page.
• Comprehensive
  In addition to evidence assessment work and training, we provide help for all other aspects of health care quality improvement steps including cost-analysis, implementation, health care communications and performance measurement including pay-for-performance (P4P), as examples.

Delfini can —

• Evidence Evaluations
  Evaluate and synthesize the medical science for your clinical area of interest; for example, we can critically appraise comparative effectiveness reviews (CER) for you — we are recognized for our rigor and our transparency
• Evidence-based Training

Delfini Workshop EBM Demystified: A Practical, Simplified Approach for Evaluating the Medical Literature— What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You

We can teach you how to evaluate medical science: Simply, effectively and in a very short period of time — and without it being too hard; without it being boring. See sample EBM course training topics. Contact Us for more information

• Health Care Information
  Create clinical recommendations and clinical guidelines — rigorous and usable
• Healthcare Clinical Quality Improvements
  Help you accomplish a clinical quality improvement project and successfully implement it, creating clinical practice change— we have many success stories far beyond the examples on our website
• Committee Help
  Help make your medical decision-making committee (such as your Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee (P & T Committee) or Medical Technology Assessment Committee) more efficient, effective and quality-based — we have vast experience in helping staff work better, smarter, more knowledgably and more effectively and making these committees run well and make high quality decisions
• Quality Improvement Methods
  Help make the outputs of your Quality Department more efficient, effective and evidence-based
• Help to Create an Evidence-based Organization
  Evaluate how well your health care organization is structured to practice evidence-based clinical quality improvement
• Performance Measurement
  Help you develop effective and responsible performance measures
• Patient-centered Care & Healthcare Communications
  Help doctor patient communication and help others communicate with patients better
• Decision & Communication Aids
  Create effective and informative communication aids such as decision support (or teach you to do this effectively yourself)
• Medical Education, Pharmacist Education, Nursing Education & Education Opportunities for Other Groups Including Legal Professionals and Design Professionals
  Create meaningful and enjoyable medical education conferences and other educational conferences for medical and related professions such as pharmacy, nursing, dental, employers, legal, architectural and — importantly patients — as well as others
• And more…

• Medical leader seeking good clinical practice guidelines...
• Healthcare leader looking for ways to improve health care quality management...
• Physician interested in creating a clinical review to provide evidence-based health care...
• Clinical pharmacist leader working to establish a high quality medical formulary or hospital formulary...
• Nurse interested in evidence-based practice nursing...
• Member of medical leadership seeking to implement health care performance measurement or part of a healthcare leadership team tasked with measuring performance through a quality management in healthcare effort...
• Physician, clinical pharmacist or nurse looking for better ways to communicate with patients...
• Medical librarian seeking ways to better help answer clinical questions...

You want to utilizing scientific research in the right way to perform all these tasks to create informative evidence-based reviews or to create improvements in care.

Quality of healthcare is affected by the use of valid (meaning “probably true”) and clinically useful scientific information obtained through a systematic literature review (known as systematic review) utilizing effective scientific review methods for critical appraisal of the medical literature.

Quality improvement in healthcare through such evidence-based reviews can be used to guide the formulation of evidence-based guidelines, treatment choices through formulary development, evidence-based practice nursing and more.

Improving healthcare quality for effective patient centered care and patient safety also requires effective implementation strategies of such items as evidence-based clinical care guidelines to effect clinical behavior change.

We can help you with all of these tasks — and more — including managing your evidence-review and clinical quality improvement committees, from staffing to membership, to structures, processes, procedures and more.

We can help healthcare leaders and individuals.

Delfini services include a broad range of clinical improvement activities including —

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.

Read more about our Evidence-based Healthcare Quality Improvement Services