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| Topics |
| Evidence-based
Health Care Topics
- Searching
simplified
- Quality
resources and how to work with them
- Evaluating
and applying medical literature
- Advanced
topics in EBM: Examples...
- Data
analysis for users
- Evaluating
diagnostic tests and screening
- Evidence
synthesis
- Creating
clinical recommendations
- Specialized
training for —
- Researchers
- Academicians
- Content
developers
- Committee
staffers
“Best
one-day educational program I’ve experienced in 25
years!”
Intermountain Health Care attendee
Salt Lake City UT
“…One
of the best classes I have ever attended. Thank you for
bringing back some common sense. Thanks so much!”
Pacificare attendee
Cypress CA
"Great
program. One of the best I’ve ever attended."
Omnicare attendee
Orlando FL |
| Clinical
Quality Improvement Topics
- Clinical
quality improvement methods
- Creating
clinical recommendations
- Practice
guidelines —
- Evidence
& judgment: how to apply both to achieve value
- Impact
change and economic projections
- Communication
aids
- Implementation
- Measurement
-
Quality indicators and performance measures
"...I
was impressed not only with the conference content, but
also the caliber of the presenters, conference location,
organization and arrangements. It was first class! I do
not recall attending a meeting where everyone was present
100% of the time, both physically and mentally....Thank
you again for including me in the invitations to this superior
conference." Anne L. Whitlock, RN, BSN, Guidelines
Development Coordinator, KP Atlanta GA |
| Health
Care Organizations & Committees
Creating
an Evidence- and Value-based Organization
- EBM
Organizational Structures —
- Quality
Council
- Value
Council
- Pharmacy
& Therapeutics
- Technology
Assessment
- Guideline
Teams and EBM Work Groups
-
Journal Clubs
- Working
with groups
"It
has been six months since the Delfini Group customized an
evidence-based training program to help us change our processes
for drug reviews. We have already experienced real success
which we expect to be sustainable and which will improve
the care we provide to our patients and our ability to use
our resources optimally. The concepts and skills learned
in the training - along with the tools and process steps
- were invaluable to us and have helped us transform our
system. Highly recommended!" David Holloway, MD, Senior
Vice President & Chief Quality Officer, Parkview Health,
Fort Wayne IN
We
can help your organization become an Evidence- and Value-based
Organization » |
| Pharmacy
& Therapeutics
Committees and
Formulary Management
Help
for committee structure and process steps, materials and
outputs, staff and committee member skills
- Introduction
to the formulary system
- Qualities
of an efficient & effective formulary system
- Pitfalls
P&T Committees and staffers commonly fall into and
how to avoid them
- How
to conduct scientific, clinical and economic drug reviews
- How
to effectively use various resources available to ensure
quality of the information used for formulary decisions
and for creating efficiency
- Work
processes for content developers
- Tips
for organizing staffing for committee support work
- P&T
Committee decision criteria
- Evidence
versus judgment: how to apply both correctly in achieving
value
- Class
effect, generic and therapeutic substitutions
- Tips
for smooth committee operations and deliberations
- Tools
including Drug Review Template, NNT Drug Comparison Calculators
and other tools for simplified and practical economic
analyses
"I've
been attending seminars with the Delfini Group since 2001.
They have played an instrumental role in the enhancement of
our P&T process. Their programs mix together an enthusiasm
for evidence-based medicine with factual market-driven ideas
to efficiently utilize the available resources. The Delfini
programs motivated me to plan a health system retreat in 2002.
The retreat was an opportunity for multiple P&T committee
members (hospital, primary care clinics, health plan) and
supporting staff to explore the importance of evidence-driven
decisions in the P&T process. The program included Delfini
presentations and working sections introducing tools to improve
efficiency. Of course the retreat was just a beginning, a
starting point to build upon. And build we have! Our P&T
presentation format and discussions have become more efficient,
and we have standardized decision algorithms that help during
crossroad discussions for an individual therapy. The evidence
will never have all the answers. But this process brings a
framework of support that has improved efficiency and, I believe,
a greater satisfaction for committee members with the difficult
task of P&T therapy evaluations and literature review."
Nicole O'Kane, PharmD, InterHospital Physicians Association,
Portland OR |
| Medical
Technology Assessment
Help
for committee structure and process steps, committee materials
and outputs, staff and committee member skills.
- Introduction
to medical technology assessment
- Qualities
of an efficient & effective medical technology assessment
system
- Pitfalls
committees and staffers commonly fall into and how to
avoid them
- How
to conduct scientific, clinical and economic medical technology
reviews
- How
to effectively use various resources available to ensure
quality of the information used for decisions and for
creating efficiency
- Work
processes for content developers
- Tips
for organizing staffing for committee support work
- Committee
decision criteria
- Evidence
versus judgment: how to apply both correctly in achieving
value
- Tips
for smooth committee operations and deliberations
- Tools
including Intervention Review Template (see , NNT Drug
Comparison Calculators and other tools for simplified
and practical economic analyses
"I
believe the evidence-based approach used by Delfini is the
right way to approach inappropriate variation in healthcare.
I fully support Delfini’s step-wise approach to assessing
medical technologies....One of the biggest problems in healthcare
is that new diagnostic and therapeutic interventions are
instituted without the support of good science....I can
highly recommend the Delfini faculty..." Doug
Dammrose, MD
Senior Vice President & Medical Director of Blue Cross
of Idaho |
| Health
Care Economics
- Cost
analysis
- Cost-effectiveness
analysis
- Pharmacoeconomics
- Decision
analysis
"...One
added benefit was the emphasis on evidence to determine cost
effective care, and the balance sheet example. Since I have
been in charge of Medical Economics, some doctors accuse me
of just being interested in saving money. Your presentation
showed that cost effective care can also be the best care.
The osteoporosis example, looking at more than just the drug
costs, was great." Tobie Bresloff, MD, Medical Director
of CareMed Alliance, Saint Francis Health System, Tulsa OK
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| Patient-centered
Strategies
- Medical
decision-making
- Clinician
/ patient communications
- Conveying
information to patients
- Patient
education
- Patient
adherence
- Special
communication topics and the evidence: examples —
Communicating risk
Difficult patient encounters
Elder care
Complementary & alternative medicine
Delfini
scores for communications
training — 5.0 out of 5.0 possible score. |
| Communication
& Information Packaging Strategies
See
Patient-centered Strategies immediately above and —
- Interprofessional
communications
- Packaging
information
- Visual
displays of information
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| Special
Clinical Topics
Trustable,
usable evidence-based guidance for clinicians developed
by one of the world’s leading experts in guideline
development: valid, comprehensible, useful and easy to apply.
- Evaluation
of sources for information
- Evidence
reviews and analyses
- Evidence
syntheses
- Clinical
recommendation development
- Content
development
- Information
packaging — information, decision and action aids
- Electronic
solutions
We
know how to create information that is valid, comprehensible,
useful and gets used. |
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