Leading for Evidence-based Quality Improvement

Clinical improvement is an area you need to keep high on your list of priorities. In many organizations, 20% to 50% of the care is inappropriate (overuse, underuse, misuse, non-use). And most people are not aware that the vast majority of health care information — even from the most respected sources — is neither valid nor clinically useful. If you have not yet read our Evidence-based Medicine Primer: The Importance of Critical Appraisal, click here for more background.

As a leader in your organization, you need to be sure you are devoting your attention and the organization’s resources to appropriate areas. You need to ensure you have established aligned incentives and aligned work components to foster clinical quality.

To effectively lead your organization in clinical quality improvement, you need competencies in evidence-based medicine (EBM), including concepts, skills and a framework and set of tools you can make available to your staff for their use in evaluating current care, new drugs and technologies and the ongoing publications in the medical literature, guidelines and performance measures relating to these areas. In short, you need to pay attention to culture, systems, processes and tools that contribute to evidence-based clinical improvements.

Contact Delfini and we will assist you in tailoring an approach to evidence-based clinical improvement that will function optimally in your organization.

Physician Executive Series for details about —

• Developing a system and the six phases of evidence- and value-based clinical improvement
• Ensuring that your P&T and technology assessment committees are functioning optimally

The Evidence-based Organization »

Delfini Approach to clinical quality improvement & value »

The Return-on-Investment for EBM »

How's your health care system doing? We have an evaluation tool to help determine how well it is positioned to practice and evidence- and value-based approach to health care.

Health Care Quality Systems Assessment Tool »

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