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Clinical Content Development Training Intensive 2006
Mission: Help advance evidence- and value-based medicine in the world’s leading healthcare services company and largest provider of clinical decision support solutions, and help provide solutions for creating decision support where evidence is lacking.
Concept: Evaluate work processes and flow. Make recommendations for rigor and efficiency. Provide an intensive training experience to advance knowledge and skills of content developers. Conduct the training and provide support using methods to help ensure sustainability.
Outcomes: Training was provided for six full days in three stages of 2 days each over the course of a month and a half, with opportunities for staff to apply their skills and raise questions in between sessions. A post-test was immediately administered folowing the training intensive, which resulted in high scores of over 90 percent correct, reflecting good understanding of basic EBM concepts such as bias, confounding and chance.
Following the training, leadership and staff saw the value of applying an evidence-based approach and to that end, began an EBM initiative to implement and nurture an evidence-based process within their organization. See the press release below.
Updates: In September 2006, an EBM post-test was again conducted. This was over six months since the 2006 training intensive. As a group, staff scored an impressive 94.7% — a solid "A" performance! This serves both as a testament to the fact that EBM training can work, plus it speaks to the incredible dedication of the McKesson staff to an evidence-based process. Refreshers and more in depth training are being planned by the McKesson EBM team.
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Contact:
Marian Mostovy
McKesson Health Solutions
617-273-2859
McKesson Solidifies InterQual® Criteria’s Leadership with Major Quality Milestones
Delfini Training Raises Evidence-Based Medical Content Standards, More Than 800 Clinical Experts Add Real-World Expertise to Development Process
NEWTON, Mass. — July 27, 2006 — McKesson Corporation, the world’s leading healthcare services company and largest provider of clinical decision support solutions, has achieved two major quality milestones with its InterQual® Criteria, making the InterQual solutions suite the unchallenged leader in evidence-based, clinical knowledge resources. McKesson further enhanced its time-tested InterQual development methodology with comprehensive training by the Delfini Group on the critical appraisal of evidence-based clinical information. In addition, the national panel of practicing clinical consultants for InterQual now totals more than 800.
The Delfini Group consists of world-renowned experts in the concepts, methods and skills of evidence-based clinical improvement to achieve better outcomes and additional value in clinical care. According to Michael Stuart, M.D., Delfini president, putting evidence-based medicine into practice is challenging not only because of the volume of scientific articles published each year — about 40,000 per month — but also, Delfini Group’s experience reveals that about 90 percent of those articles are either invalid or do not have clinically useful outcomes.
“A critical first step in developing evidence-based medical criteria is a thorough and consistent appraisal of the scientific literature, yet few clinicians or other allied health professionals receive in-depth training on how to determine how close to the truth that science is or how clinically useful those results are going to be,” explained Sheri Ann Strite, Delfini principal and managing partner. “McKesson has made an incredible investment in this training. It was one of the most intense experiences that we’ve put any company through. We are so impressed by McKesson’s commitment to maintaining a truly comprehensive process and providing the best in evidence-based information to their customers — and to improving healthcare in general.”
Complementing the McKesson criteria development team of 20 expertly trained healthcare professionals is an unrivaled pool of over 800 practicing clinical consultants. These consultants — physician specialists, nurses, psychologists, chiropractors, acupuncturists, social workers and occupational therapists — come from all areas of the United States, as well as Canada and Britain, and lend their practical knowledge and experience to the criteria development process, filling in gaps that the evidence does not adequately cover.
“Our development process has been consistently enhanced over the 30-year history of InterQual, to the point that we feel the gold standard in clinical-decision support criteria has officially gone platinum,” said Ricardo Guggenheim, M.D., vice president of clinical content and design, McKesson Health Solutions. “Our unique synthesis of best scientific evidence and real-world best practices ensures that our customers have optimal tools to support sound clinical decision-making.”
More than 3,500 health plans, hospitals, academic medical centers, government agencies and care management organizations serving more than 100 million people currently use InterQual evidence-based tools to support clinical decisions for individual patients across the continuum of care. The product’s unmatched breadth and clinical strength — including its rich research base, care facilitation features, integration of quality indicators and care management notes — has made InterQual Criteria the world’s most respected evidence-based medical solution for care management decision-making.
About McKesson Corporation
McKesson Corporation (NYSE: MCK), currently ranked 16th on the FORTUNE
500, is a healthcare services and information technology company dedicated
to helping its customers deliver high-quality healthcare by reducing costs,
streamlining processes and improving the quality and safety of patient
care. Over the course of its 173-year history, McKesson has grown to provide
pharmaceutical and medical-surgical supply management across the spectrum
of care; healthcare information technology for hospitals, physicians,
homecare and payors; hospital and retail pharmacy automation; and services
for manufacturers and payors designed to improve outcomes for patients.
For more information, visit us at www.mckesson.com.
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McKesson - Clinical Content Development Training Intensive 2006
Working with McKesson was an incredibly rewarding experience for us, giving us an opportunity to get deeply involved in assessing work activities and giving us a chance not only to provide training to help advance evidence-based medicine skills and methods, but also to engage in creating solutions for work process steps.
The project involved leadership training and advisement, interviewing staff, reviewing work processes and then conducting a multi-staged training program with embedded consulting along the way. Due to the multi-tiered approach, the project was a dynamic one, with frequent iteration along the way to provide customized just-in-time support to fulfill McKesson's emerging needs as process decisions were explored.
Evidence-based medicine is too often merely a buzz-word, with little honest reality behind its use or true lack of understanding of what evidence-based practice really means. This was a significant investment of time and resources, demonstrating McKesson's commitment to providing true evidence-based guidance for McKesson customers, using a rigorous and realistic approach. Following the project, McKesson demonstrated even further commitment to enhancement of evidence-based processes by starting an in-house EBM initiative. Delfini continues to provide support as they work to further embed EBM processes more deeply into their practice and products.
We want to recognize and thank the leaders with whom we worked whose vision, commitment and unflagging efforts made this project a reality and whose efforts will serve to benefit many in the immediate future and for years to come. We also want to recognize and applaud the attendees who worked so hard as both active learners and involved participants. We very much enjoyed working with the staff, and we know of no staff anywhere who are more dedicated and committed to high quality outcomes. We congratulate them on their success and admire their motivation.
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